 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Semen akaroora Maria, mwanasikana waJonas Goštautas. Pakati pe1450s Goštautas akaronga kubvisa Grand Duke Casimir IV Jagiellon uye kuisa mukwasha wake Semen Olelkovich. Semen akagara nhaka yeMuchinda weKiev, asi mushure mekufa kwake yakachinjwa ikava Kiev Voivodeship. Vazukuru vake vakaramba vachiti vane kodzero dzomunharaunda yacho, asi voivodeship yaitongwa nevakuru vakuru vakagadzwa voivodes kubva kune dzimwe mhuri dzevakuru vakuru. Kurasikirwa kweKiev kwaigona kunzi kwakabva pakutenda kwaOlelkovich Eastern Orthodoxy panzvimbo pechiKaturike uye ukama hwavo hwepedyo neMachinda Makuru eMoscow, ayo akatyisidzira miganhu yekumabvazuva kweLithuania. Zvisinei, Duchy of SlutskKapyl haina kushandurwa kuita powiat uye yakaramba iri mumaoko emhuri. Aodzwa mwoyo nezvematongerwe enyika zvaivapo, Mikhailo Olelkovich akaronga kupikisa Casimir IV uye akatomboedza kupidigura hurumende muna 1481. Zano racho rakafumurwa, zvichida nomutongi weKiev Ivan Chodkiewicz, uye Mikhailo akaurayiwa. Muna 1471, Mikhailo akanga apindawo musungano pfupi apo Novgorod Republic yakamukoka kuti ave mutongi wayo mukuedza kuputsa pesvedzero yeMoscow. Zvisinei, kuedza kwacho kwakaguma nokukundwa kwakasimba paHondo yeShelon. 