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False Dmitry I Лжедмитрий I
Tsar of all Russia
Reign
10 June 1605 – 17 May 1606
Coronation
21 July 1605
Predecessor
Feodor II
Successor
Vasili IV
Born
19 October 1582 (claimed)
Died
17 May 1606(1606-05-17) (aged 23) Moscow, Russia
Spouse
Marina Mniszech
Names
Dmitry Ivanovich (claimed)
Dynasty
Rurik (claimed)
Signature
False Dmitry I (Russian: Лжедмитрий I, tr. Lzhedmitriy I)[1] (or Pseudo-Demetrius I) reigned as the Tsar of all Russia from 10 June 1605 until his death on 17 May 1606 under the name of Dmitriy Ivanovich (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович). According to historian Chester S.L. Dunning, Dmitry was "the only Tsar ever raised to the throne by means of a military campaign and popular uprisings".[2]
He was the first, and most successful, of three "pretenders" (Russian: самозванцы (sing.: самозванец), romanized: samozvanets) who claimed during the Time of Troubles to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich, who supposedly escaped a 1591 assassination attempt when he was eight years old. It is generally believed that the real Dmitry of Uglich died in Uglich in 1591. False Dmitry claimed that his mother, Maria Nagaya, anticipated the assassination attempt ordered by Boris Godunov and helped him escape to a monastery in the Tsardom of Russia, and the assassins killed somebody else instead. He said he fled to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after he came to the attention of Boris Godunov, who ordered him seized. Many Polish nobles did not believe his story, but nonetheless supported him.[citation needed]
With the support of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, False Dmitry invaded the Tsardom of Russia in 1605, but the war ended with the sudden death of Boris Godunov. Disaffected Russian boyars staged a coup against the new tsar, Feodor II. False Dmitry entered Moscow on 21 July 1605, and was crowned tsar. Maria Nagaya accepted him as her son and "confirmed" his story. False Dmitry's reign was marked by his openness to Catholicism and allowing foreigners into Russia. This made him unpopular with the boyars, who staged a successful coup and killed him eleven months after he took the throne. His wife of 10 days, Marina, would later "accept" False Dmitry II as her fallen husband.
^Other romanizations include the common Dmitri and Dmitry, as well as Dmitrii, Dimitri, Dimitrii, Dimitriy, and Dimitry.
^Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. p. preface, p. xi. ISBN 0-271-02074-1. Retrieved October 16, 2010.
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step-father, Ivan Zarutsky. In November 1605, Marina Mniszech married FalseDmitryI, Tsar of Russia and thus became Tsarita consort of All Russia. However...
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth unofficially invaded Russia in support of FalseDmitryI against the unpopular crowned tsar Boris Godunov, seeking to exploit...
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the death of Tsar Fedor in 1598. He led the government forces against FalseDmitryI. After the impostor seized power, he was able to retain his position...
assassins. Also, it is well known that many Polish nobles who supported FalseDmitryI did not believe his story themselves. The death of the tsarevich roused...
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the pretender the FalseDmitryI, who posed as her son, she was called by Godunov, who questioned her, but she denied having met Dmitry and was sent back...
command of Khlopko Kosolap. After the death of FalseDmitryI, rumors spread around Moscow that it was not Dmitry who was killed in the palace, but someone...
imploring him to accept the throne. Job was known as a harsh critic of FalseDmitryI and he tried to persuade the people of Moscow to remain loyal to the...
impetus for the repeated emergence of impostors such as FalseDmitryI, FalseDmitry II, and FalseDmitry III. On the death of Boris, who had become tsar, and...
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an atmosphere of treachery. On 11 June (N. S.) 1605 the envoys of False Dmitriy I arrived at Moscow to demand his removal, and the letters that they...
became tsarina of Russia by her marriage to the impostor FalseDmitryI and later to FalseDmitry II. Many wives were chosen by bride-show (the custom of...
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