“There was an influential family of Billeviches on Zhmud, descended from Mindovg, related to the nobility and honored throughout the Russian district. The Billeviches never reached high ranks - at most, they held positions in the district, but on the battlefield they rendered great services to the country, for which they were generously rewarded at different times. Their family nest, which exists to this day, was also called Billevichi, but besides it they had many other estates not only in the vicinity of Russia, but also further to Krakinovo along the banks of the Lyauda, Shoya and Nevyazh, there - beyond Ponevezh ... "