Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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The Romanov family that had once stood so near the throne were deprived of their possessions and banished.
Their chief, Prince Fyodor Nikitich, was shorn and shut up in a monastery as a monk under the name of Philaretus.
All the higher nobility were soon embittered against the new Tsar, and
But his worst foes were the very clergy whom he had lately so favoured.
The cause of their estrangement was Boris's endeavor to encourage intercourse with foreign nations, to attract strangers to Russia, and, last and worst, to found in Moscow a university after the Western Plan, and invite to it learned men from other parts of Europe.
A terrible famine added to the universal discontent.
Under these circumstances there suddenly appeared a youth claiming to be Dimitri, Fyodor's younger brother.
Who he really was no one could tell, but his speech and general appearance rendered it probable that he was a pole, a tool of the Jesuits, who wished with his aid to establish Catholicism in Russia.
No one now doubts that Dimitri was an impostor.
It is an established fact that a groom of the Polish Prince Vishneovsky, in an alleged severe sickness, asserted while confessing to a Jesuit that he was the real Dmitri.
He said that someone else had been slain under his name, and to prove his identity he showed a gold cross adorned with diamonds and various papers.
In sixteen oh three.
His master and his master's family believed his assertion.
The Jesuits were naturally much interested in him and had him enter a Jesuit college to be taught the truths of the Catholic religion.
King Sigismund III, as a dutiful pupil of his father's, at once acknowledged him as Tsar Dimitri, gave him a pension of twenty thousand marks, and granted permission to all Poles to join the great prince in his attempt to recover his empire.
Dimitri solemnly pledged himself to make Catholicism the state religion of Russia, to marry Marina Minichek, daughter of the Voivod of Sandomir, and to surrender various provinces of the
To the Republic of Poland.
He then started on his expedition in August sixteen oh four, accompanied by many thousand Polish nobles.
As soon as the invading army reached Russian soil, the general dissatisfaction with Boris, the veneration entertained for the old legitimate dynasty, and besides the force of example, brought multitudes of Russians over to the pretender.
Morris died suddenly on april thirteenth, sixteen oh five, having, it is supposed, poisoned himself in his despair.
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