Editing False Dmitry I (section)

{{Short description|Tsar of Russia from 1605 to 1606}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = False Dmitry I
| image        = False Dmitry I portrait.png
| caption      = A portrait of False Dmitry I made in Poland–Lithuania in the early 17th century
| succession   = [[Tsar of all Russia]]
| reign        = {{OldStyleDate|20 June|1605|10 June}} &ndash; {{OldStyleDate|27 May|1606|17 May}}
| coronation   = 21 July 1605
| predecessor  = [[Feodor II of Russia|Feodor II]]
| successor    = [[Vasili IV of Russia|Vasili IV]]
| birth_date   = 19 October 1582 (claimed)
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1606|05|17|1582|10|19|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Moscow]], [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]
| spouse       = [[Marina Mniszech]]
| issue        = 
| full name    = Dmitry Ivanovich (claimed)
| house        = [[Rurik Dynasty|Rurik]] (claimed)
| house-type   = Dynasty
| date of burial = 
| place of burial = 
| signature    = Подпись Лжедмитрия I.svg
}}

'''False Dmitry I''' or '''Pseudo-Demetrius I''' ({{langx|ru|Лжедмитрий I|Lzhedmitriy I}}){{efn|Other [[Romanization of Russian|romanizations]] include the common '''Dmitri''' and '''Dmitry''', as well as Dmitrii, Dimitri, Dimitrii, Dimitriy, and Dimitry.}} reigned as the [[Tsar of all Russia]] from 10 June 1605 until his death on 17 May 1606 under the name of '''Dmitriy Ivanovich''' ({{langx|ru|link=no|Дмитрий Иванович}}). According to historian Chester S.{{nbsp}}L. Dunning, Dmitry was "the only Tsar ever raised to the throne by means of a military campaign and popular uprisings".<ref name=romanov>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9NUYtSJaO8cC|title= Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty|publisher= [[Pennsylvania State University Press]] |year= 2001 |page = preface, p. xi |isbn= 0-271-02074-1|access-date= October 16, 2010}}</ref>

He was the first, and most successful, of three [[List of impostors|impostors]] who claimed during the [[Time of Troubles]] to be the youngest son of [[Ivan the Terrible]], [[tsarevich]] [[Dmitry of Uglich|Dmitry Ivanovich]], who supposedly escaped a 1591 assassination attempt when he was eight years old. It is generally believed that the real Dmitry of Uglich died in [[Uglich]] in 1591. False Dmitry claimed that his mother, [[Maria Nagaya]], anticipated the assassination attempt ordered by [[Boris Godunov]] and helped him escape to a monastery in the [[Tsardom of Russia]], and the assassins killed somebody else instead. He said he fled to the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] after he came to the attention of Boris Godunov, who ordered him seized. Many Polish nobles did not believe his story, but nonetheless supported him.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

With the support of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, False Dmitry invaded Russia in 1605, but the war ended with the sudden death of Boris Godunov. Disaffected Russian [[boyars]] staged a coup against the new tsar, [[Feodor II]]. False Dmitry entered Moscow on 21 July 1605, and was crowned tsar. Maria Nagaya accepted him as her son and "confirmed" his story. False Dmitry's reign was marked by his openness to [[Catholicism]] and allowing foreigners into Russia. This made him unpopular with the boyars, who staged a successful coup and killed him eleven months after he took the throne. His wife of 10 days, Marina, would later "accept" [[False Dmitry II]] as her fallen husband.