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False Dmitry II (Russian: Лжедмитрий II, romanized: Lzhedmitrii II; died 21 December [O.S. 11 December] 1610), historically known as Pseudo-Demetrius II and also called tushinsky vor ("the rebel/criminal of Tushino"), was the second of three pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest ...
With the murder of ‘False Dmitry’, the Time of Trouble didn't end. In 1607, a new impostor appeared, calling himself Russian tsar, miraculously survived the murder in Moscow. His real ...
Not sure about normal people, but Russian officials actively tried to avoid mentioning their association with "true" Dmitry. They usually referred to both of them as impostors. In other instances False Dmitry I was usually called by his real name's derogatory form - Grishka, - and False Dmitry II was nicknamed "Thief of Tushino".
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This man was the first person in Russian history to ascend the throne with the help of a popular uprising – and under a false identity! This person, whose real identity is still heavily debated, claimed during the Time of Troubles to be Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich (1582-1591), the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and Maria Nagaya, his last wife. He...
Amazingly, there were more False Dmitrys in Russian history – four of them in total! But only the first two of them were referred to as Tsars – if the False Dmitry I was actually anointed to Tsardom, the False Dmitry II was just treated as the tsar in his own kind of Tsardom that existed for a short while in the Russian territory. The identity of F...
Although there were also the Third and the Fourth False Dmitrys (that’s right!), they weren’t nearly as successful as the first two. Russians simply stopped believing in the possibility of Ivan’s son surviving. For a long time, there were no possible members of the Tsar’s family that could be ‘impersonated’ – until Simeon Alexeevich (1665-1669) and...
1607-1610 Tsar of Russia. He is the second of the three impostors who claimed the Russian throne in the Time of Troubles. He was only partially recognized and finally murdered before he could complete the siege of Moscow. Background. Lived: 1582-1610. False Dmitry II first appeared in 1607.
The generic name False Dmitry (also Pseudo-Demetrius, Russian: Лжедмитрий, Lžedmitrij) refers to various impostors who passed themselves off as the deceased Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, and claimed the Russian throne during the Time of Troubles (1598–1613), after the real Dmitry's ...
