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False Dmitry II
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dimitri
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Place of death
- Kaluga
- Spouse
- Marina Mniszech
- Occupation
- impostor
- Image
- False Dmitriy II (engraving) 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- False Dmitriy II
- date of death
- 1610-12-21
- date of birth
- 1600-01-01
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- decapitation
- name in native language
- Лжедмитрий II
- place of burial
- Kaluga
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “False Dmitry II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.