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#Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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People · Tsardom of Russia
False Dmitry I: The Pretender Who Became Tsar
Who was False Dmitry I? How a runaway monk claimed to be Ivan the Terrible's dead son, took Moscow in 1605, married Marina Mniszech and was killed in 1606.
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War & Warriors · Tsardom of Russia
The Time of Troubles (1598–1613): Famine, Pretenders and the Poles in the Kremlin
Russia's Time of Troubles, 1598–1613: the great famine, three False Dmitrys, the Poles in the Kremlin, Minin and Pozharsky and the first Romanov tsar.