Editing False Dmitry I (section)

==Death==
On the morning of 17 May 1606, ten days after Dmitry's marriage to Marina, huge numbers of boyars and commoners stormed the [[Kremlin]]. Dmitry tried to flee by jumping out a window, but fractured his leg in the fall. He fled to a [[public baths|bathhouse]] and tried to disappear within. But he was recognized and dragged out by the boyars, who killed him lest he successfully appeal to the crowd.<ref>"Massa's Account of Events Surrounding the Death of the False Dmitrii in 1606." ''Medieval Russia: A Source Book, 850-1700''. Ed. Basil Dmytryshyn. 3rd ed. Harcourt College, 9. 550. Print. Page 361-362</ref> His body was hacked to pieces, burned, and then the ashes fired from a cannon towards Poland.<ref name="pa">{{cite book |last1=Avrich |first1=Paul |title=Russian Rebels; 1600-1800 |date=1972 |publisher=Schocken Books |location=New York |pages=16–17}}</ref>  According to Palitsyn, Dmitry's death set off a massacre of his supporters. He boasted in his chronicle that "a great amount of heretical blood was spilled on the streets of Moscow."<ref>Zenkovsky (1974), page 386.</ref>

Dmitry's reign had lasted only eleven months before Prince Shuisky took his place. Two further impostors later appeared, [[False Dmitry II]] and [[False Dmitry III]], the first of whom was publicly "accepted" by Tsarina Marina as her fallen husband.