 Bishop Sava Petrović-Njegoš conveyed to the people a Russian message that Šćepan was an ordinary crook, but the people believed the "tsar" rather than Bishop Sava.Following this event, Šćepan the Little put Bishop Sava under house arrest in Stanjevići monastery.Metropolitan Sava II wrote "The land has been silenced" and that all of Montenegro was under Šćepan Mali.