Under Daniel, a significant southwestern part of Russia separated from other Russian lands and began to live a special life. It has become much stronger, thanks to the fact that it was for a while like one whole. This unity did not last long, but it was important that southwestern Russia concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people belonging to the same family. The reign of Daniel delayed for a century the fall of southwestern Russia and the burden of a foreign yoke. Existing for a century after the Tatar invasion, southwestern Russia distracted Lithuania's attention from the east, took its blows and made it possible for Moscow to grow stronger, while Pskov and Novgorod did not allow Livonians to Moscow.