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Having safely passed the frontier outpost, in the summer of 1601 Dimitri ended up in Lithuania. He went deep into the Commonwealth, hoping to join the retinue or army of some noble gentry who might be interested in the history of the prince.

But it turned out to be more difficult than he thought. Previously, in Poland, he was considered a nobleman, the uncle of the king, and all doors were open for him. And how to make friends with the lords, if you are a poor, obscure youth? Very soon, Dimitri realized that not only getting close, but even getting to know some nobleman would be a difficult task. Realizing that he could not dream of joining anyone's army, he decided to enter the service of a rich pan.

At first, he went to Orsha, hoping to find work with the owner of his former castle. But it turned out that Jan-Stanislav Vapovsky, to whom, while still being Francois, he bequeathed all the lands, he sold them to the crown, and no one now lived in Orsha Castle. Dimitri spent a few more