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False Dmitry II

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322:, where she "recognized" her late husband in this second Dmitry. According to Dunning, "On the Tushino impostor's boyar council sat such powerful men as Mikhail G. Saltykov and Dmitrii Trubetskoi. They were soon joined by several of Tsar Dmitry's former courtiers, including Grigorii Shakhovskoi and Mikhail Molchanov. The Saltykov and Romanov families were by far the most influential Russians in Tushino. The arrival in Tushino of 537: 47: 386: 440:
Having drunk deep at dinner... he ordered a sleigh to be harnessed, taking flasks of mead to the sleigh. Coming out into the open country, he drank with some boyars. Prince Peter Urusov, together with those several score horsemen with whom he was in league, was riding after him, apparently escorting
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Dunning states, "According tradition, the future 'Tsar Dmitry' was at the time of his 'discovery' a priest's servant and teacher who lived for some time in the town of Shklov in Belorussia." In the winter of 1606-7, unemployed and reduced to begging, Pan Miechowikci noticed the beggar looked similar
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him. And when the imposter had drunk very well with the boyars, Urusov drew from his holster a pistol which he had ready, and galloping up to the sleigh first shot him with the pistol, then cutting off his head and hand with his saber, took to the road.
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from the capital, was converted into an armed camp where Dmitry gathered his army. His force initially included 7,000 Polish soldiers, 10,000 Cossacks and 10,000 other rag-tag soldiers, including former members of the failed
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approached Tushino, forcing him to flee his camp disguised as a peasant and go to Kostroma, where Marina joined him and he lived once more in regal state. He made another unsuccessful attack on Moscow, and, supported by the
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to Dmitry, and eventually convinced the beggar to learn the role of the deceased prince. In May 1607, accompanied by two aides, the impostor crossed the border and made his way to Starodub.
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Nagoy, but falsely confessed under torture that he was Tsarevich Dmitry, whereupon he was taken at his word and joined by thousands of
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False Dmitry IV was active around the same time as False Dmitry III and may just be False Dmitry III because of bad record keeping
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caused a majority of his Polish supporters to desert him and join with the armies of the Polish king. At the same time, a
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In 1608, following a peace agreement with King Sigismund, Tsar Vasilii agreed to release the father-in-law of
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A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
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The second False Dmitry first appeared on the scene around 20 July 1607, at
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with seven thousand cavalrymen in August sped up rebel military activity."
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His birthdate is claimed so he may not have been 28 when he died.
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is often mistakenly used as a portrait of False Dmitry II
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Index

False Dmitri II

Cyrus the Great
Tsar of Russia
Russia
Dmitri Ivanovich
Feodor I
False Dmitry I
Ivan IV
Maria Nagaya
Marina Mniszech
Ivan Dmitriyevich
False Dmitry I
False Dmitry III
False Dmitry IV
Ivan Dmitriyevich
romanized
O.S.
Tushino
Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich
Ivan the Terrible
Time of Troubles
appanage
Uglich
Starodub
Jew
liturgical matters
boyar
Cossacks
Poles

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