along the way. He captured Mikhailov, then he defeated a group led by Zakhary Lyapunov (brother of Prokopy Lyapunov) and Ivan Khovansky sent by Tsar Vasili Shuisky near Zaraysk: according to Russian chronicles the former instead of besieging the city fell drunk on the battlefield and was dispersed by Lisowski once he learned about weakness inside Zakhary's ranks. Then they set off for Kolomna, and moved on to the blockade of Moscow. Soon however he was defeated at Niedźwiedzi Bród, losing most of his loot at hands of voivode . He reorganized the army and joined with Jan Piotr Sapieha, but besieged and failed to capture the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra fortress and were forced to retreated near Rakhmantsevo. Then came successes (pillages) at Kostroma, Soligalich and some other cities. Around 1608–09, his troops, composed of 2,000 Cossacks, 1,000 "Boyar's children" (loyal to Dimitry) and 700 Polish riders, joined with forces of Erazm Strawiński, defeated Russian mass levy from Galich and Vologda, and conquered Kostroma, Galich, Soligalich. Ingrian War He took Pskov in 1610 and clashed with Swedes operating in Muscovy during the Ingrian War. Lisowczycy were essential in the defence of Smolensk in 1612, when most of regulars (wojsko kwarciane) mutinied and joined the konfederacja rohatynska. For the next three years Lisowski's forces were important in the guarding of the Polish-Muscovy border against Muscovy incursions. In 1615 Lisowski gathered many outlaws and invaded Muscovy with 6 'choragiew' of cavalry. He lied siege to Bryansk and defeated the relief force of a few thousand soldiers under kniaz Yuri Shakhovskoy near Karachev. Then Lisowski defeated the front guard of a much larger force (several times larger than himself) under the command of knyaz Dmitry Pozharsky, who decided to defend instead of attack and fortified his forces in a camp. Lisowczycy broke contact with his forces, burned Belyov and Likhvin, took Peremyshl, turned north, defeated Muscovy army at Rzhev, turned to Kara Sea, then to Kashin, burned Torzhok, returned to Poland-Lithuania without any interference from Muscovite forces. Death Until the autumn of 1616, Lisowski and his forces remained at the Lithuanian-Muscovite border. After a short trip to Homel he returned to Starodub. There Lisowski suddenly fell ill and died in the first half of October after surveying his troops. In his memory, his men adopted the name, Lisowczycy ("Lisowski's men"). References Polish rebels 1580s births 1616 deaths 17th-century Polish nobility Polish people of the