Nobody expected the campaign of the Crimean Khan against Moscow this year.
The Chief Boyar of Public Health held regular meetings. The peasant woman Praskovya came from relatives from Lithuania and died soon after. The Secret Order spread rumors that she had to self-isolate.
The Chief Boyar of Public Health Ivan Vsevolozhsky hurried to catch up with orders:
- for self-isolation;
* except for the boyars who arrived from foreign countries on sovereign affairs;
- the ban on walking the streets;
- the ban on trade in soap and fabrics;
- for stop communications between villages.
Brave, in brand new uniforms and fully armed, the city guards held conversations with passers-by about the need for self-isolation. The army was not ready at all.
The Grand Prince disappeared from Moscow (later, the grand prince's office transmitted to the chroniclers the information that the Grand Prince had been gathering troops in Volok). The city guards also stopped catching passers-by and disappeared from sight.
The defense was entrusted to the boyar Ibrahim, who accidentally walked along the Kremlin, and some clerk, who was told to find someone, transmitted him an order to protect the city.