 Having served up to the grade of foreman, he refused to continue military career as an officer, deciding to leave the world and to enter a monastery.Four years later, he arrived in the Monastery of Saint Job in Ladomirova in the Carpathian mountains (at the time, the territory of Czechoslovakia).In 1939, Rostislav Ustinov was professed a monk with the name of Vitaly, and received the Little Schema a year later.