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#Time of Troubles
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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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People · Tsardom of Russia
Boris Godunov: The Real Tsar Behind Pushkin and Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov ruled Russia as regent and tsar from 1585 to 1605. Did he murder Tsarevich Dmitry? And how did Karamzin, Pushkin and Mussorgsky make his legend?
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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.