biography
| name: |
Dmitri
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also known as Demetrius
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pronunciation:
[duhmeetree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1583–91)
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| biography:
| Russian prince, the youngest son of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. He was murdered by the regent Boris Godunov, but about 1603 was impersonated by a runaway Moscow monk, Grigoriy Otrepieff, the ‘false Dmitri’, who was crowned tsar by the army in 1605 but killed in 1606 in a rebellion. A second and a third ‘false Dmitri’ arose within the next few years, but their fate was no better. |
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