Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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His widow and his son Fyodor were strangled by the populace.
On june twentieth, sixteen oh five, the false Dimitri made his solemn entrance into Moscow in the midst of rapturous manifestations of joy.
The mother of the real Dimitri was released from her imprisonment in a convent and full of a vindictiveness against the Godunovs, did nothing to expose the impostor, though she did not formally acknowledge him as her son.
The banished families, especially the Romanovs and the Schuskis, returned, and the new Tsar began his reign wisely and mildly, but his past rose threateningly against him.
He had to reward the greedy Poles who had accompanied him with Russian gold and Russian estates.
Polish customs and Polish influence prevailed at his court.
He entertained close relations with the hated West and allowed the Jesuits to hold Catholic worship in the Kremlin.
Finally Dimitri wished to organize a standing army of foreigners, which was to be maintained, in large measure, at the expense of the church.
Marina, a Polish woman, and a Catholic, was betrothed to Dimitri, and a thing never done before, solemnly crowned as Zarina.
The fanatical hatred of the Russians against everything foreign, and especially against the Roman Catholic Church now broke out in all its intensity.
They, the only Orthodox believers, saw themselves delivered over to heretics and to their hated Polish neighbors.
Prince Vasily Shuiski, whom Dimitri had unwisely pardoned for a former conspiracy, gave able leadership to the general discontent and strengthened it with his armed retainers.
On may seventeenth, sixteen oh six a terrible riot broke out in Moscow, in which the pretender and his most prominent adherents, many Germans among them, were slain by the enraged mob.
Other Poles, the Tsarina, the Miniceks, and the Vishnevetskys included, were arrested and distributed among various Russian cities.
Thus ended the reign of the impostor Dimitri after less than a year's duration.
The throne was now vacant, and no legitimate climate was on hand.
As an attack on the part of Poland was expected, the Boyars, with the approval of the people, made Vasilishuiski, leader of the insurrection, Tsar.
He at once did away with all of Dimitri's innovations, made important concessions to the Boyars, and to prevent the imitation of the imposter's attempt, caused the body of the true Dimitri to be disinterred and
and publicly exposed.
It began at once to work miracles, and Dimitri was added to the saints of the Greek calendar.
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