All traces of him disappear until an archival document found in the main archive of Budapest which unraveled the whereabouts of the painter after 1697. A copy of a letter, dated 21 May 1708, signed by Metropolitan Isaija Đaković asking Serbs to join Jovan Tekelija's militia against Francis II Rákóczi who was threatening the Archduchy of Austria with his so-called Rákóczi's War of Independence.That letter was copied multiple times by Sava Krabulević who was then an assistant to Metropolitan Isaija and his secretary in some administrative capacity at the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. It is also possible that Isaija Đaković invited and even sponsored Krabulević from Russia in the first place. There is ample evidence that Isaija who built Serbian schools wrote to at least one of the Russian co-rulers asking for teachers in literacy and the sciences and arts.