The Zemsky Sobor of 1613 was a meeting of representatives of the Estates of the realm of the Tsardom of Russia, held for the election of Tsar after the expulsion of the Polish-Lithuanian Occupiers at
The proclamation by Abraham Palitsin, kelar of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, the decision of the Zemsky Sobor on the election of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov to the kingdom. A miniature from the Book of the Election to the Kingdom of the Great Russian Tsar of the Great Sovereign and Grand Prince Prince Mikhail Feodorovich of All Great Russian Autocracy. 1673
The approved letter of the Zemsky Sobor on the election of Mikhail Fedorovich to the royal throne
Mikhail Fedorovich after being elected to the kingdom
The approved letter of Zemsky Sobor on the election of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Moscow, May 1613. Museum of the Moscow Kremlin. It was written in 2 copies in the form of scrolls, certified by the signatures of more than 230 participants of the Sobor (on the back) and seals of the clergy. At the moment, one of them consists of 9 sheets, in the photo – the 1st sheet
Marina Mniszech or Mnishek was a Polish noblewoman who was the tsaritsa of all Russia in May 1606 during the Time of Troubles as the wife of False Dmitry I. Following the death of her husband, she lat
Official portrait, early 17th century
Official portrait of False Dmitry I
Coronation of Maryna Mniszech in Moscow by Tommaso Dolabella.
Marina Mniszech in coronation robes, 1606.