X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Time of troubles


House of Romanov

As a former leader of the anti-Godunov party and cousin of the last legitimate Tsar, Filaret Romanov's recognition was sought by several impostors who attempted to claim the Rurik legacy and throne during the Time of Troubles.

Time of troubles

a general period in Arnold Toynbee's model of the lifecycle of civilizations (see A Study of History)

Time of Troubles, a particular period in early 17th-century Russian history

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.


Jan Breydel

Kuzma Minin, the Russian leader of a popular militia that drove the Poles out of Russia at the end of the Time of Troubles in 1612, also happened to be a butcher.

Stepan Degtyarev

His oratorio Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow (1811) concerned the 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation during the Time of Troubles interregnum by the Second Zemschina Army led by Kuzma Minin-Sukhoruk, a fishmonger, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.


see also

Kipelov

Smutnoye Vremia (рус. Смутное Время, Time of Troubles, 1997) - officially not considered a "Kipelov" release, but as a standalone album by Valery Kipelov and Sergey Mavrin.