What if: Jaunutis/Ivan of Lithuania survives

What if Jaunutis/Ivan of Lithuania survives, a surviving Ivan of Lithuania could make the Grand Duchy of Lithuania an Orthodox state just like in the POD if Jogaila marries Sophia, who will he marry and will the survival of Ivan of Lithuania turn Lithuania to a Russian analogue?.
 
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What if Jaunitis/Ivan of Lithuania survives, a surviving Ivan of Lithuania could make the Grand Duchy of Lithuania an Orthodox state just like in the POD if Jogaila marries Sophia, who will he marry and will the survival of Ivan of Lithuania turn Lithuania to a Russian analogue?.

Who the heck is Jaunitis?
 
Who the heck is Jaunitis?
I meant Jaunutis.
Jaunutis (Belarusian: Яўнут; literally young man; baptized: Ioann,"Jawnuta", "John" or "Ivan"; ca. 1300 – after 1366) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345.
Jaunutis was not mentioned in any written sources prior to Gediminas' death.[1] There are many theories why Gediminas chose Jaunutis, a middle son, as his successor. Some suggested that he was an acceptable compromise between pagan (Algirdas and Kęstutis) and Orthodox (Narimantas, Karijotas, Liubartas) sons of Gediminas.[2] Others claimed that Jaunutis was the eldest son of Gediminas' second wife; thus the tradition that Gediminas was married twice: to a pagan and Orthodox duchess.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaunutis
 
What if Jaunutis/Ivan of Lithuania survives, a surviving Ivan of Lithuania could make the Grand Duchy of Lithuania an Orthodox state just like in the POD if Jogaila marries Sophia, who will he marry and will the survival of Ivan of Lithuania turn Lithuania to a Russian analogue?.
He got baptised only when he fled to Moscow, so there are no evidence that he would do it if would stay in power.
 
Minor point: he did survive his deposition, and eventually was given some lands back.

If he's not deposed at all, it's all too likely that Lithuania is Balkanized. Jaunutis isn't recorded as doing much of anything in his five years as Grand Duke, and his brothers ruled their own territories (including setting thier own foreign policy and getting into wars) at will.
 
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