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Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Dimitri and the False Tsars. Mar 11, Mimi rated it liked it Shelves: a-treasury-of-childhood , read Dec 31, Karen GoatKeeper rated it really liked it Shelves: read , children-s-books. Although written for the younger audience, this is a very interesting introduction to some Russian history of about to Over a period of 25 years Russia had five tsars.

The mob was led by Vasiliy Shuisky , who would become the next Tsar. Amazingly, there were more False Dmitrys in Russian history — four of them in total! But only the first two of them were referred to as Tsars — if the False Dmitry I was actually anointed to Tsardom, the False Dmitry II was just treated as the tsar in his own kind of Tsardom that existed for a short while in the Russian territory. The identity of False Dmitry II is unknown to the present day.

In , Mikhail Molchanov d. Nothing is really known about this person except that he knew Russian Orthodox customs and was fluent in Polish. Very soon, the garrison of the town of Starodub now, in the Bryansk Region of Russia , where False Dmitry II appeared, took an oath to him as the Tsar, and his army began to grow. By the winter of , he took the town of Oryol. There, Dmitry acted as the Tsar, accepting the oaths of different Russian cities.

At some point, most of the Russian Tsardom was under his control, with the exception of only the biggest cities of Novgorod, Kazan, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, which stayed true to Vasiliy. There were two tsars, two Boyar Dumas, as well as two patriarchs and two administrations. He was never more than a figurehead although 27 when becoming tsar, and a possible successor to Feodor was Ivan's son by his seventh marriage: Dmitri.

In Dmitri was nine and a half, and that year he died after his throat was slit. Officials claimed that the boy had accidentally cut himself playing with a knife during an epileptic fit.

Believing that Dmitri had been murdered, mobs attacked and killed Dmitri's guardians. Historians suspect that agents of Feodor's former guardian, Godunov, had murdered Dmitri. At any rate, when Feodor died in , at the age of 40, Ivan's family had no heirs for the throne, and Boris Godunov was accepted as Moscow's new tsar.

Godunov had the Russian army win back the port of Narva from the Swedes, and he invited the British to trade through the port, without tolls. He tried to advance the interests of Russia's middle-class. Near Moscow, he had fortresses and towns built to check raiding by the Tatars and Finnish tribes. Tsar Godunov was the first of Moscow rulers to send young people abroad to study, and the first to allow Lutheran churches.

But despite Godunov's efforts to do well for Russia, his reign ended in disaster. Due to the political unrest, strained resources, and factions against his rule, he was not able to accomplish much during his short reign, which only lasted until Tsar Boris Godunov.

His short-lived reign was beset by famine and resistance from the boyars. While Godunov was attempting to keep the country stitched together, a devastating famine swept across Russian from to Most likely caused by a volcanic eruption in Peru in , the temperatures stayed well below normal during the summer months and often went below freezing at night.

Crops failed and about two million Russians, a third of the population, perished during this famine. This famine also caused people to flock to Moscow for food supplies, straining the capital both socially and financially. The troubles did not cease after the famine subsided. In fact, brought about new political and dynastic struggles. The first of the nicknamed False Dmitris appeared in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in claiming he was the lost young brother of Ivan the Terrible.