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Back to Episodes10th June 1605: False Dmitry I enters Moscow and is recognised as tsar following the death of Boris Godunov
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False Dmitry asserted that he was Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. With support from Polish nobles, mercenaries, and anti-Godunov factions, he entered Russian territory from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ...