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unusual facts about False Dmitriy I


Tsarevna Xenia Borisovna of Russia

Some months later, when the Time of Troubles started, her mother and her brother, Feodor, were killed by order of False Dmitriy I.


Ignatius of Moscow

Due to his active role in the installation of False Dmitriy I to the Moscow throne and later conversion to the Unia, Ignatius has suffered from damnatio memoriae in subsequent ages and often is not counted among the legitimate patriarchs by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Peter Petreius

The book was based exclusively on Peersson's own experience and on the oral narratives by contemporary Russians (Vasily Shuysky, Maria Nagaya and the retinue of False Dmitriy I) and Western witnesses (Caspar Fiedler, Conrad Bussow).


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