False Dmitry II
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False Dmitry II, historically known as Pseudo-Demetrius II and also called tushinsky vor, was the second of three pretenders to the Russian throne during the Time of Troubles who claimed to be the you
A 17th-Century depiction of Cyrus the Great is often misinterpreted as a portrait of False Dmitry II.
Dmitry's camp at Tushino, by Sergey Ivanov.
Time of Troubles
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The Time of Troubles, also known as Smuta, was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accessi
Konstantin Makovsky's Appeal of Minin (1896) depicts Kuzma Minin against the background of the church of St. John the Baptist appealing to the people of Nizhny Novgorod to raise a militia against the Polish invaders and Sigismund III Vasa.
Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), depicting the accidental killing of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich by his father Ivan the Terrible; it made Feodor I heir to the Russian throne.
Palace in Uglich, where Tsarevich Dmitry lived and died