Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I piki haere te mana o te Grand Duchy o Moscow, ā, i whawhai ōna hiahia ki a Lithuania. I muri i te
I te Pakanga o Blue Waters i te tau 1362 i riro a Lithuania i a Kiev ka noho hei hoa tata o Moscow. I awhina a Algirdas i a Tver, te hoa whawhai nui o Moscow, ana i ngana ki te whakatairanga i tana taina wahine a Mikhail II o Tver ki te torona o Vladimir, he taonga roa o Moscow. I te tau 1372 i whakahaerehia e Algirdas tetahi whakaeke tuatoru ki Moscow. Ko etahi atu whakaeke e rua i te 1368 me te 1370 i tae ki te taone nui o Moscow, engari kaore i angitu ki te tango i te Kremlin o te taone nui. I te tau 1372 i aukatihia te ope Lithuanian i te taha o Lyubutsk, he pa kaha i te awa o Oka ki te raki o Tula. I hinga nga hoia o mua o Lithuania, a, i hoki whakamuri. I whakapumautia e Algirdas tana tuunga i roto i nga pukepuke teitei ka anga atu ki te ope a Dmitri. Whai muri i te wā o te tūtukitanga, ka mutu te tiriti rongo. I whakaae a Algirdas ki te whakarere i nga mahere ki te whakatairanga i a Mikhail kia mutu ai te awhina a Lithuania ki Tver. I roa te rangimarie mo te whitu tau tae noa ki te 1379, i muri i te matenga o Algirdas i te 1377 ko tana tama matamua a Andrei o Polotsk i hono ki a Moscow ki a Jogaila.