Reblogged funamblrist
Not only did I miraculously survive the first assassination you all know about, I also survived the assassination attempt on that other impostor too
I should also note in adding onto this, that the first time a False Dmitry got killed, the Russians loaded his corpse into a cannon and fired it away. The Second False Dmitry claimed not only to be the original Prince Dmitry Ivanovich but also the one who got fired out of a cannon. There were at least four False Dmitrys who tried to rule Russia between 1605 and 1612. Eventually, Russians decided to canonize the original Dmitry (who I should note died at age 8) to prevent any further False Dmitrys because now if anyone where to try to pretend to be Dmitry they would be accused of heresy.
#you guys aren't ready for stephan the little#tsar of montenegro and true russian emperor#(random peasant who convinced the every tribal chief he was actually peter iii of russia)#(only deposed when russian ambassadors found out)#(they actually let him stay in power anyways)#‘well he’s not tsar peter but he’s the only competent politician in the balkans so we gotta support him’
