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False Dmitry II

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False Dmitry II

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pretender to the Russian throne

Key facts

Born
19 October 1582 ( 1582-10-19 ) (claimed)
Died
21 December 1610 (1610-12-21) (aged 28)
Title s
Pretended Tsar of Russia
Throne s claimed
Russia
Connection with
Claimed to be Dmitri Ivanovich , half brother of Feodor I and False Dmitry I .
Father
Ivan IV (claimed)
Mother
Maria Nagaya (claimed)
Spouse
Marina Mniszech
Children
Ivan Dmitriyevich
Predecessor
False Dmitry I
Successor
False Dmitry III , False Dmitry IV or Ivan Dmitriyevich

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Encyclopedic overview

A 17th-Century depiction of Cyrus the Great is often misinterpreted as a portrait of False Dmitry II. False Dmitry II (Russian: Лжедмитрий II, romanized: Lzhedmitrii II; died 21 December [O.S. 11 December] 1610), historically known as Pseudo-Demetrius II and also called tushinsky vor ("the thief of Tushino"), was the second of three pretenders to the Russian throne during the Time of Troubles who claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich. The real Dmitry had died under uncertain circumstances, most likely an assassination in 1591 at the age of nine at his widowed mother's appanage residence in Uglich.

Biography

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