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On 15 May 1591, Dmitry died there under mysterious circumstances. As a result, when Feodor I died childless in 1598, Dmitry, the only other possible Rurikid heir, was also dead, and Godunov claimed the throne.
- The Unlawful Heir
- Death of A Cruel Child
- The Uglich Case
- Why Dmitry Probably Wasn’T Killed
Dmitry Ivanovich, the last son of Ivan the Terrible, was a full namesake of his first ever son, Dmitri Ivanovich (October 1552 – 26 June 1553), who was also the first ever Tsarevich (heir apparent) to the Russian throne. Naming your son after his dead half-brother was something Russians never did, in fear of bad luck. What reason could Ivan possibl...
When Ivan died in 1584, Fyodor, who became the next Tsar, didn’t acknowledge Dmitry as the heir. He was treated as a tsar’s son born out of wedlock, or bastard. Dmitry and his mother were sent away from Moscow to Uglich. English diplomat Jerome Horsey wrote that “the ex-tsarina was accompanied by her retinue, and packed dresses, jewelry, food, hors...
What ensued has become known as the ‘Uglich Case’. The commission interrogated over 150 people in the city, including those participating in the murder of the Moscow servicemen dispatched to watch over Dmitry. The committee’s main goal was to disproveMaria’s claim that Kachalov and the Bityakovskis were sent to kill Dmitry. Immediately after the in...
This version remained the official one, and when in 1613 the Romanovs came to power, they accepted it also. However, Russian historians of the 19th and 20th centuries, including greats like Sergey Platonov and Ruslan Skrynnikov, argue that Dmitry wasn’t murdered and that the first investigation of 1591 was correct. The main reason to support this c...
Oct 22, 2015 · There is not much that can be said about the life of Dmitri of Uglich, as he died at the extremely young age of eight. Nevertheless, it is his ‘afterlife’ that contributed to one of the most bizarre episodes in Russian history.
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Feb 8, 2023 · On May 15, 1591, the deceased body of Tsarevich Dmitry was found alone in an empty courtyard in Uglich with a fatal neck wound. When the people of Uglich heard the church’s bell ringing to announce the death of Tsarevich Dmitry, they formed a mob in response to what they all felt was an assassination ordered by Boris Godunov.
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DMITRY OF UGLICH. (1582 – 1591), youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, whose early death was followed by the appearance of two "False Dmitry" claimants to the throne in the Time of Troubles. Dmitry Ivanovich, the son of Tsar Ivan IV, was born in 1582 at a time of dynastic crisis.
Dmitry Ivanovich (born October 19 [October 29, New Style], 1582—died May 15 [May 25, New Style], 1591, Uglich, Russia) was the youngest son of Ivan IV (the Terrible), whose death cast suspicion on imperial adviser Boris Godunov.
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May 30, 2017 · He died in 1605, a few months before the triumphal “return” of the false Dmitry. The curse of Dmitry did not end for the Godunov family with Boris’s death. His son Feodor and his wife were smothered to death shortly before the false Dmitry’s arrival in Moscow.
