Dmitry attracts a number of followers, forms…

Dmitry attracts a number of followers, forms a small army, and gains the support of Commonwealth magnates who give him approximately thirty-five hundred soldiers from their private armies, with whom he rides to Russia in June 1604.

Enemies of Boris, including the southern Cossacks, join his forces on his way to Moscow.

Dmitry's forces fight two engagements with reluctant Russian soldiers; they win the first at Novhorod–Seversky, soon, capturing Chernigov (modern Chernihiv), ...