#false dmitry iv

[tomorrowusa]

If makers of horror films are getting tired of the same old sociopathic bad guy monsters such as Freddy Krueger/Jason/Michael Myers/Chucky, they can always introduce a new one based on Vladimir Putin.

Putin likes to think of himself as the new Peter the Great; but I’d reach back a century before Peter to a series of three fake heirs who each became known as a ‘False Dmitry’. Perhaps the new Putin-inspired film monster could be called False Dmitry IV. He would stalk Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region looking for countries to loot and decivilize before submerging them in the decaying “Russian World” (Русский мир).

In these films a new superhero called NATOman would come to the rescue. However False Dmitry VI would periodically come back to life after neighbors turned their attention to other matters. That would result in sequel after sequel.  

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Tuesday,

may 15_may 28

THE SLAIN CROWN PRINCE DEMETRIUS OF MOSCOW (1591)

Born October 19, 1582 and was the son of Ivan IV Vasilyevich, more commonly known as Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Terrible.

Ivan was succeeded by his much less capable son, Feodor, upon his death in 1584. According to some, the new Tsar Feodor was not only feeble in body, but also in mind. This meant that Feodor was a ruler only in name, and that real power was in the regency council that was established to guide the Tsar. One of the most prominent figures of the council was Boris Godunov, the Tsar’s brother-in-law.

Feodor and his wife, Irina, did not produce an heir, and, according to one popular account, BorisGodunov was hoping to occupy the Russian throne once Feodor died. In order to achieve this, Boris Godunov would have to have to get rid of the last of Ivan’s sons, Dmitri.

In the year that Ivan died, Dmitri, his mother, and his uncles were exiled to Uglich, the Tsarevich’s appanage city.

Wanting to get rid of the rightful heir to the Russian throne, Boris Godunov began to act against the prince as against a personal enemy. At first he tried to slander the young heir to the throne, spreading false rumors about his alleged illegitimate birth. Then he issued a new invention that if Demetrius had inherited his father's harshness Sovereign. As these actions have not brought the desired, the insidious Boris decided to destroy the prince.

An attempt to poison Demetrius was not a success: the deadly potion did not harm the child. Then the villains decided to hide the crime. In Saturday May 15, 1591, the young prince Demetrius walked in the yard with his nurse. The killers, Osip Magi, Danilo Bitiagovsky and Nikita Katchalov, brutally stabbed prince.

Prince Dimitri was buried in Uglich, in the palace church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Many miracles and healings began to be made at his tomb, especially often healed the sick eyes. A July 3, 1606 the holy relics of martyr Tsarevich Dimitri were found incorrupt.

Source:

After numerous miracles of healing from the holy relics, three feastdays for the Tsarevich Demetrius were established during this same year of 1606, his birthday (October 19), his murder (May 15), and the transfer of his relics to Moscow (June 3).

Source: Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St John the Baptist

SAINT ACHILLES, BISHOP OF LARISSA (330)

Saint Achilles, Bishop of Larissa, lived during the fourth century, during the reign of Saint Constantine the Great. Glorified for his holiness of life and erudition, he was made Bishop of Larissa in Thessaly.

Saint Achilles participated in the First Ecumenical Council, where he boldly denounced the heretic Arius. In his city he strove to promote Christianity, destroyed idolatrous pagan temples, and he built and adorned churches.

Saint Achilles had the gift of healing sickness, especially demonic possession, and he worked many miracles. The saint died peacefully in about the year 330. His relics have remained in Prespa, in today's Republic of Macedonia, since 978.

ACTS 10:21-33

21 Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, "Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what reason have you come?" 22 And they said, "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you." 23 Then he invited them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter went away with them, and some brethren from Joppa accompanied him. 24 And the following day they entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I myself am also a man." 27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many who had come together. 28 Then he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 29 Therefore I came without objection as soon as I was sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me? 30 So Cornelius said, "Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, 31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms are remembered in the sight of God. 32 'Send therefore to Joppa and call Simon here, whose surname is Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea. When he comes, he will speak to you.' 33 So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.

JOHN 7:1-13

1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him. 2 Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. 3 His brothers therefore said to Him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world. 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him. 6 Then Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come. 9 When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee. 10 But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. 11 Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, "Where is He?" 12 And there was much complaining among the people concerning Him. Some said, "He is good"; others said, "No, on the contrary, He deceives the people." 13 However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

[russiawave]

I was born in Russian Empire, i ate 16437 pryaniks in my life.

False Dmitry IV the Tsar of pryaniks and imperior of bubliks, is that you?

[palecleverdoll]

Wives and Daughters of Russian Tsars: Ages at First Marriage

I have only included women whose birth dates and dates of marriage are known within at least 1-2 years, therefore, this is not a comprehensive list. This data set ends with the daughters of Peter I; the start of Imperial Russia.

Anastasia Romanova, wife of Ivan IV; age 17 when she married Ivan in 1547 CE

Maria Temryukovna, wife of Ivan IV; age 16 when she married Ivan in 1561 CE

Maria Skuratova-Belskaya, wife of Boris Godunov; age 18 when she married Boris in 1570 CE

Marfa Sobakina, wife of Ivan IV; age 19 when she married Ivan in 1571 CE

Anna Koltovskaya, wife of Ivan IV; age 20 when she married Ivan in 1572 CE

Maria Nagaya, wife of Ivan IV; age 28 when she married Ivan in 1581 CE

Irina Godunova, wife of Feodor I; age 23 when she married Feodor in 1580 CE

Yelena Sheremeteva, wife of Ivan Ivanovich; age 28 when she married Ivan in 1581 CE

Marina Mniszech, wife of False Dmitry I;  age 17 when she married Dmitry in 1605 CE

Maria Dolgorukova, wife of Michael I; age 23 when she married Michael in 1624 CE

Eudoxia Streshneva, wife of Michael I; age 18 when she married Michael in 1626 CE

Maria Miloslavskaya, wife of Alexis; age 24 when she married Alexis in 1648 CE

Natalya Naryshkina, wife of Alexis I; age 20 when she married Alexis in 1651 CE

Agafya Grushetskaya, wife of Feodor III; age 17 when she married Feodor in 1680 CE

Marfa Apraksina, wife of Feodor III; age 18 when she married Feodor in 1682 CE

Praskovia Saltykova, wife of Ivan V; age 20 when she married Ivan in 1684 CE

Eudoxia Lopukhina, wife of Peter I; age 20 when she married Peter in 1689 CE

Catherine I of Russia, wife of Peter I; age 18 when she married Johan Cruse in 1702 CE

Anna of Russia, daughter of Ivan V; age 17 when she married Frederick William Duke of Courland and Semigallia in 1710 CE

Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel; age 17 when she married Alexei Petrovich in 1711 CE

Catherine Ivanovna, daughter of Ivan V; age 25 when she married Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in 1716 CE

Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter I; age 17 when she married Charles Frederick I, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, in 1725 CE

The average age at first marriage was 18 years old.

[mostly-history]

Portrait of False Dmitry I (Russia, 1607).

Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich was the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. In 1591, he died of a stab wound in mysterious circumstances; later rumours would claim that Boris Godunov, who was tsar at the time, had murdered him so he could gain the throne.

False Dmitry I was the first of three men who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry.  He was backed by the Poles, and in October 1604 he crossed into Muscovy, with an army of mercenaries and volunteers.  By November, his army had grown to 16,000 men, and Godunov died the next year (either by poison or a stroke).  The pretender's army stormed the Kremlin, and False Dmitry was crowned tsar on June 10th, 1605.  However, he was murdered nearly a year later, and Vasily Shuisky became Tsar Vasily IV.

[flamingredanon]

Right is wilford's son. When wilford went missing right snuck away from his godfather gene in order to look for his dad. Wilford injured but alive made it to a safe house in a town near the wall. Right found him there and for the next few weeks tried to both help his dad heal and convince him to go back to the toppats. Wilford refused under the pretense there was a traitor there and in his now weakened state he would be even easier killed. Right gave up and returned to the clan but promised to visit his dad often.

Over the next few years wilford met and fell in love with dmitri who felt the same despite eventually finding out about the whole retired toppat thing. Right while a little suspicious at first grew to love dmitri like another father with dmitri feeling vice-versa and things were fine. However dmitri still didn't really like the toppats as a whole but hid his hatred of them because right was still happy as one and wilford still had friends there. Even when right became a cyborg dmitri hid his hatred (though he did try and imprison the little cretin that nearly killed right) if only to keep his family happy.

But then one day right showed up on their doorstep broken hearted. There was a traitor on the station and they framed right. Despite being a toppat for years, despite being wilford's son (a leader still respected), not only did the clan believe the lies but so did his closest friends henry, ellie, and reginald. Right had to flee the station and didn't know where else to go.

Dmitri watched as wilford took their son into his arms careful and calm in his hold despite the fury shimmering in his eyes. And as his husband and his eyes locked that hatred for the toppats bubbled up and they both agreed. Those bastards will pay for hurting their son for daring to assume right would be disloyal.

Grigori was left in charge of the Wall while Dmitri, Wilford and Right went to the Toppat Space Station for a visit, prepared to attack if need be. They were going to put an end to this traitor business once and for all, regardless of if they are welcomed back into the clan.

Several Toppat were mummering to themselves, some were fleeing at the sight of Sir Wilford IV, Dmitri Johannes Petrov and Right. They marched straight into the communications office and demanded Burt to give them video footage of Right's room before he was falsely accused of being a traitor. Burt agreed, not really caring that a leader that was presumed dead, the Warden of the Wall and a traitor were in his office.

Burt gave them the footage and the only person to actually go in Right's room, was Thomas Chestershire. Wilford growled because he was the one that planned the heist that caused his injuries. Right thanked Burt and the three of them marched the space station in search of Thomas.

Thomas was casually drinking tea with Reginald and Henry when the door to the room was busted in. Thomas acted shocked as Reginald demanded to know what the traitor was doing back on the space station, allying himself with someone who probably faked his death and the Warden of the Wall.

Right explained that Thomas was the real traitor, that he planted the evidence against him in his room and the heist that Wilford was in all those years ago was also planned by him. Thomas and Reginald looked at each other, as Henry just looked at the floor, the feeling of guilt for not being there for Right hitting him like a truck.

Reginald then spoke that he knew all of that, that with Right hiding Wilford and allying himself with Dmitri only proves he is a traitor and danger to the clan. Henry stood up to try to defend Right and his two allies he brought with him, causes Thomas to shoot Henry in the face, aiming for his left eye.

Henry slumped over as alarms started blaring, Sir Wilford picking up the injured man as Dmitri told them to run. The three of them were slowly becoming outnumbered, this wasn't a fight they would win.

Ellie and a few Elites charged at them, cementing themselves as enemies to the clan. Right got everyone into an escape pod, and soon they were off back to Earth.

Reginald only smiled as he put Henry's old hat back on his head, it was good to be king again.

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Henry survived his injury, thanks to Dr V and a new cybernetic eye. Henry apologized profusely to Right, asking for his forgiveness and friendship back for not trusting him. Right just pulled Henry into a hug and said he was already forgiven and he never stopped being Henry's friend.

Henry gave an awkward wave to Dmitri as Right decides to explain things to his dad so things wouldn't be so awkward. Meanwhile Sir Wilford IV just looked on from Dr V's boat, they were all traitors to the clan, with Right's other friends choosing greed and power over friendship.

It would be best for all of them to lay low. For the Toppats were no longer family to any of them.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

1. Anna Anderson as Anastasia Romanov

In 1918, Bolshevik revolutionaries murdered the Russian princess Anastasia, along with the rest of her family.

However, rumors persisted of her alleged survival for decades and over the years, several different impostors claimed to be Anastasia Romanova.

None gained as much fame as Anna Anderson.

The would-be royal first surfaced in the early 1920s in a Berlin mental asylum, where she announced that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the deceased Czar Nicholas II.

Although most of the surviving Romanovs dismissed her as a fraud, the girl bore a striking resemblance to the princess and even knew many personal details of her life.

She soon won the support of a coterie of wealthy Russian emigrants, many of whom believed she was the legitimate heir to the throne.

The supposed princess eventually moved to America in 1968 and took the name Anna Anderson.

But while her story inspired several books and even a Hollywood movie, she failed to win recognition in court due to a lack of evidence.

Her story remained the source of much debate until 1994, when a posthumous DNA test finally proved she was not related to the Romanov family.

Anderson was likely a Polish factory worker who disappeared in 1920, but her true identity has never been confirmed.

2. Gregor MacGregor as the "Cazique of Poyais"

In the early 1820s, a dashing Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor rose to the top of London’s high society on the basis of a most unusual claim.

A former soldier and mercenary who had fought in South America, MacGregor presented himself as the “cazique” or prince, of a small Central American country he called Poyais.

As evidence, the faux royal produced several maps, drawings and even a book, all of which described the mysterious country as a fertile paradise with a working government and friendly native population.

MacGregor’s tiny principality seemed the perfect destination for European settlers, except for one small detail: It didn’t exist.

Far from being a “cazique,” MacGregor was actually a con man who had cooked up a fairy tale country as a way of bilking investors out of huge sums of money.

He eventually sold thousands of pounds worth of land rights for his phantom nation.

In 1822, the first would-be “Poyers” set sail across the Atlantic Ocean.

Arriving in Central America and finding only unsettled jungle, the pioneers—many of whom had converted their life savings into phony Poyais currency—soon realized they had been swindled.

The stranded colonists were eventually rescued but not before some 180 people perished from disease.

Not surprisingly, MacGregor fled the country soon after the news reached England.

He later resurfaced in France but was arrested after he tried to set up a second Poyais-related scheme.

3. False Dmitry I

The man known as False Dmitry I not only successfully posed as a prince, he managed to con his way onto the royal throne of Russia.

The pretender first became known to history in the early 1600s, when he appeared in Poland declaring himself to be Dmitry, the youngest son of the deceased Ivan the Terrible.

The real Dmitry had supposedly been assassinated as a boy, but the imposter claimed he had escaped his would-be murderers and fled the country.

The alleged royal went on to charm the Russian people, eventually riding a wave of public support all the way to Moscow.

False Dmitry was crowned czar in July 1605, but his rule was ultimately short-lived.

The pretender’s policies proved too radical for Russia’s elites, and he was overthrown and assassinated less than a year later.

Many have since speculated that his real name may have been Grigory Otrepyev, but this has never been proved.

Amusingly, he was not the only impostor who claimed to be the real Dmitry.

Two more pretenders emerged over the next decade, though neither succeeded in winning the throne.

4. Perkin Warbeck as Richard of York

Not only did young Perkin Warbeck masquerade as a prince, he nearly succeeded in overthrowing King Henry VII of England.

In 1491, Warbeck appeared in Ireland claiming he was Richard of York, the youngest son of the former King Edward IV.

The real Richard was most likely murdered in the Tower of London as a boy, but at the time, there was still much speculation about his fate.

Capitalizing on this mystery, Warbeck presented himself as the missing prince and eventually won support among Henry VII’s political enemies, who included such powerful figures as James IV of Scotland and Maximilian I of Austria.

Warbeck landed in Cornwall in 1497, and he soon galvanized his supporters into a rebel army of several thousand men.

But when faced with the possibility of a battle with the king’s forces, the pretender lost his nerve and fled to the coast.

He was eventually captured and later admitted he was an impostor before being executed by hanging in 1499.

Warbeck is widely regarded as a famous fraud, but some historians have noted that Henry VII could have fabricated the pretender’s backstory in an attempt to discredit him.

With this in mind, there remains at least a small possibility that Warbeck may have actually been Richard of York.

5. Mary Baker as “Princess Caraboo”

For several months in 1817, the village of Almondsbury, England fell under the spell of a phony island princess.

The young woman had first appeared in the town clad in a black turban and speaking a mysterious language.

Through a Portuguese translator, she identified herself as Princess Caraboo, a member of the royal family of Javasu, a small Indian Ocean atoll.

Even more astonishing, she claimed she had been kidnapped from her homeland by pirates, and had only escaped by plunging into the freezing Bristol Channel and swimming ashore.

The story of Princess Caraboo quickly took the town by storm.

People flocked to get a look at the visiting royal, who slept on the floor, swam naked in a nearby lake and climbed trees to pray to a god called “Allah Tallah.”

The fascination continued until a woman from a neighboring town noticed that Her Highness Princess Caraboo was in fact Mary Baker, an English girl who had previously been employed in her house as a servant.

Baker later admitted that she had invented the princess and her bizarre language as part of an elaborate con, and the story of the hoax went on to become a minor sensation in the British press.

6. Yemelyan Pugachev as Peter III

In 1773, a royal impostor sparked one of the largest revolts in Russian history.

Capitalizing on his striking resemblance to the murdered Peter III, a former soldier named Yemelyan Pugachev took on the identity of the late emperor and incited a massive peasant uprising against Catherine the Great.

As Peter III, Pugachev promised populist reforms, including autonomy for Russia’s Cossack population and an end to the feudal system.

Soon, thousands of serfs had rallied to his standard.

Initially catching the empress by surprise, Pugachev’s army laid siege to the city of Orenburg in late 1773 then proceeded to raze Kazan the following year.

Despite these early successes, by late 1774, Catherine’s generals had started to turn the tide of the conflict.

Following a decisive defeat at Tsaritsyn, a group of Pugachev’s lieutenants betrayed him and turned him over to the empress.

The impostor was executed in early 1775, and his revolt crumbled soon thereafter.

7. Karl Wilhelm Naundorff as Prince Louis-Charles

Although he spent his life as a watchmaker and clock salesman, German swindler Karl Wilhelm Naundorff went to his grave insisting he was the rightful King of France.

Naundorff arrived in Paris in the 1830s claiming to be Prince Louis-Charles, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, both of whom were beheaded during the French Revolution.

Naundorff was only one of several men who professed to be the long-dead dauphin, but he soon succeeded in winning the confidence of many high profile figures including the prince’s former governess.

Despite having several physical characteristics in common with the Prince Louis-Charles, Naundorff never provided sufficient evidence for his assertion, and he was eventually branded a fraud.

Even Princess Marie Therese—his supposed sister—refused to meet with him.

After being expelled from France, Naundorff lived out his later years in the Netherlands, where he was recognized as Louis-Charles until his death in 1845.

The mystery of his true identity would endure for another 150 years, but Naundorff was finally exposed as an impostor in the early 21st century, when DNA evidence proved he was not related to Marie Antoinette.

[cambionic-moved]

I am False Dmitry IV!

[nanshe-of-nina]

Fake Instagram || Grand Princesses of Kiev & Tsarinas of Russia — House of Rurik

Olga of Kiev. Wife of Igor of Kiev. Mother of Sviatoslav the Brave.

Anna Porphyrogénnētē. Wife of Vladimir the Great. Daughter of Emperor Romanos II and Theophano.

Gytha of Wessex. First wife of Vladimir II Monomakh. Mother of Mstislav I the Great, Yaropolk II, and Vyacheslav I. Daughter of Harold Godƿinson and Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce.

Sofiya Palaiologina. Wife of Ivan III the Great. Mother of Vasili III of Russia and Yelena Ivanovna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania & Queen of Poland. Daughter of Thōmâs Palaiologos, Despot in Morea and Aikaterinē Zaccaria. Born “Zoe Palaiologina.”

Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva. First wife of Ivan IV the Terrible. Mother of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich and Tsar Feodor I the Bellringer. Daughter of Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Yuriev and Uliana Ivanovna.

Maria Temryukovna. Second wife of Ivan IV the Terrible. Daughter of Teymour of Kabardia. Born “Qochenay bint Teymour.”

Marina Yurievna Mniszech. Wife of False Dmitry I and False Dmitry II. Daughter of Jerzy Mniszech and Jadwiga Tarło. Born “Maryna Mniszchówna.”

[mapsontheweb]

Current and former heads of state and rulers of Polish descent.

Seweryn_Szeliga:

This map shows current and former heads of state and rulers of polish descent

Currently Poland, Germany, Israel and Peru have heads of state of polish descent.

Angela Merkel is one quarter polish as her Grandfather was Ludwig Kaźmierczak, who was a German policeman of Polish ethnicity, who had taken part in Poland's struggle for independence and fought in the Polish Army.

The President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has polish jewish ancestry through his family, his father Maxime Hans Kuczyński was born in Poznan, Poland to a Jewish family

The Prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has a Jewish father who was born in Warsaw, Poland under the name of Benzion Mileikowsky

Polish rulers have also historically reigned in many other countries, during the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth polish rulers reigned over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and modern day Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia.

During earlier times under the Kingdom of Poland, a polish king also reigned over the entirety of Slovakia

Władysław IV Vasa a polish king was crowned Tsar of Russia and reigned in Russia from 1610 to 1613 during the Time of Troubles

Władysław, aged 15, was elected Tsar by Muscovy's aristocracy council of Seven boyars

False Dmitry I who regined as tsar of Russia from 1605 to 1606 may have also been of polish ancestry as there were rumors that Dmitry was an illegitimate son of the Polish king, Stefan Batory,

Sigismund III Vasa was the half polish half Swedish king of both the polish Lithuanian commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. During his reign he also controlled the entirety of Finland and Estonia

Cnut the Great was a half polish half Danish King of Denmark and Norway who conquered England and was crowned King of England. The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg and the Encomium Emmae report Cnut's mother as having been a daughter of Mieszko I of Poland.

The Polish Jagiellonian dynasty also ruled over the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia and also has control of Croatia and held the title of King of Croatia

Vladislaus II of Hungary is a good example of a polish Jagiellonian ruler who was King of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia at the same time

Finally the legal wife of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent was of polish descent, Hurrem Sultan (born to the Lisowski family) was born in the kingdom of Poland and was taken as a slave by Crimean tatars and was eventually sold to the ottoman ruler and eventually became his wife and one of the most influential women in ottoman history. she gave birth to Selim II who ruled the ottoman empire between 1566 and 1574

The Head of Vatican City was also polish, Pope John Paul the 2nd

Marie Leszczyńska was mother of Louis XVI of France and of other children whose descendants included monarchs of most other Catholic European kingdoms, as well as Pedro I of Brazil and Maximilian I of Mexico. (I didn't know about this, so sadly did not include it)

on a side note two polish Americans have come close to the U.S presidency, Edmund Muskie who participated in the 1972 democratic primary and was nominee for Vice President and also Bernie Sanders who is of polish Jewish descent but lost the democratic primary in 2016 to Hillary Clinton His father, Elias Sanders, was born on September 14, 1904, in Słopnice, Poland.

[tomorrowusa]

In case you're not familiar with the Time of Troubles...

False Dmitry

One could argue that Russia is in a modern Time of Troubles that began with the ill-fated Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

Regardless, Vladimir Putin has inflicted an incalculable amount of damage on Russia for the sake of his ego. His "special operation" in Ukraine was supposed to last 2 or 3 days. Today it is in its 510th day.

He has unintentionally revealed to the world what a poor military he has; size doesn't matter if troops are poorly trained, badly equipped, and usually drunk. And those troops are not exactly eager to die just to make him look good.

He thinks that keeping the war going will make him seem strong. But it is having the opposite effect.

People who have a strong need to always appear tough often are trying to compensate for their own weakness and insecurity. Putin's fragility is on full international display.

[rarebookman]

First Edition Octavo (4-1/4' x 6-3/4') bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather and brown boards with a gilt-stamped spine; [1], 250 pages. Engraving on verso of title page; lacking the 12-page preface. Wing M75. An appendix was included in the Second Edition published in 1677 though retaining the 1674 date on the title page. The online ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA gives the background on Manley's subject matter: 'False Dmitry, also called Pseudo-demetrius, Russian Lzhedmitry, or Dmitry Samozvanets, any of three different pretenders to the Muscovite throne who, during the Time of Troubles (1598-1613), claimed to be Dmitry Ivanovich, the son of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible (reigned 1533-1584) who had died mysteriously in 1591 while still a child.' Leo Loewenson in THE SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW states, 'THE RUSSIAN IMPOSTOR is of course not a primary historical source in the sense in which such a classification is applicable to reports by foreign travellers. It is obviously a secondary work, i.e. the result of research. Not even the geographical description of Russia, with which the historical narrative is introduced, contains the slightest reason to assume that Manley had ever visited the country. Moreover apart from inconclusive remarks like that about the uncertainty still prevailing in Russia with regard to the identity of the Impostor there is also nothing to suggest that any information was derived from hearsay, But the lack of any value as a primary%2...

[parkersrevenge]

OKAY SO ivan iv died couple years before and borris gudonov was on the throne. false dmitry #1 claims he is one of the many sons ivan had though the original dmitry is dead. #1 gathers up an army that's 20k strong and attacks moscow and gets crushed. he survives and chills out in the outskirts. when borris dies the council (basically just the powerful families) decides #1 is a perfect fit for the throne. cue 1 year of #1 drinking, whoring, and wasting money (1/2)

(2/2) the council decides they made a mistake and murder him. once dead, #1 is cut into pieces and shot in 4 different cannons which are shot in 4 directions (it was a superstition thing). council elect some other dude and then a couple years later false dmitry #2 pops up and sets up another capitol. the tsar crushes #2 and #2 dies. so lo and behold false dmitry #3 takes the stance. what's funny about #3 is that he was #2's son. and that's that. it was a party up in early 1600s russia

I cannot believe this.................... I need to learn more about Russian history, oh my god.

[theconservativebrief]

Michael Cohen’s plea deal for making false statements to Congress doesn’t just indicate that he lied about the Trump Organization’s attempt to get a real estate project off the ground in Russia — it also indicates that the Kremlin helped in the cover-up.

In August 2017, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that he received an email from Cohen, who was then Donald Trump’s lawyer and an executive at the Trump Organization, in January 2016. Cohen’s email asked for help with a development project in Russia. Peskov said he never responded to Cohen’s query.

“This email said that a certain Russian company together with certain individuals is pursuing the goal of building a skyscraper in the ‘Moscow City’ district, but things aren’t going well and they asked for help with some advice on moving this project forward,” Peskov said at the time. “But since, I repeat again, we do not react to such business topics — this is not our work — we left it unanswered.”

Peskov’s account of what happened matched Cohen’s. Cohen told CNN his message to Peskov was “an email that went unanswered that was solely regarding a real estate deal and nothing more.” He told that same story to Congress during his sworn testimony.

But according to the plea agreement Cohen agreed to in federal court on Thursday, it turns out both he and Peskov were lying.

From Mueller’s court filing:

COHEN did recall that in or around January 2016, COHEN received a response from the office of Russian Official 1, the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, and spoke to a member of that office about the Moscow Project. i. On or about January 14, 2016, COHEN emailed Russian Official 1’s office asking for assistance in connection with the Moscow Project.

i. On or about January 16, 2016, COHEN emailed Russian Official 1’s office again, said he was trying to reach another high-level Russian official, and asked for someone who spoke English to contact him.

ii. On or about January 20, 2016, COHEN received an email from the personal assistant to Russian Official 1 (“Assistant 1”), stating that she had been trying to reach COHEN and requesting that he call her using a Moscow-based phone number she provided. iii. Shortly after receiving the email, COHEN called Assistant 1 and spoke to her for approximately 20 minutes. On that call, COHEN described his position at the Company and outlined the proposed Moscow Project, including the Russian development company with which the Company had partnered. COHEN requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction. Assistant 1 asked detailed questions and took notes, stating that she would follow up with others in Russia.

iv. The day after COHEN’s call with Assistant 1, Individual 2 [Felix Sater] contacted him, asking for a call. Individual 2 wrote to COHEN, “It’s about [the President of Russia] they called today.”

In sum, Cohen emailed Peskov about a development project and got a response that led to a string of phone calls. But as Trump’s contacts with Russia came under increased scrutiny in the summer of 2017, both Cohen and the Kremlin decided to lie about it, pretending they’d never successfully connected.

The episode illustrates one way the Kremlin has blackmail material over the president. Lying to Congress is a criminal offense. The Kremlin knew for more than a year that the story Trump’s longtime lawyer and personal fixer told Congress wasn’t true. Cohen also knew that the Russians knew this — and could have exposed his lies, if they’d wanted to.

Last year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Cohen’s outreach on the Trump Tower Moscow deal received no response. As Cohen’s plea demonstrates, they lied. They helped Trump by providing false corroboration. This is a counterintelligence nightmare. https://t.co/jRBoBQ0DsO

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 30, 2018

While Cohen’s plea agreement indicates that the Kremlin helped Trump cover up his contacts with Russia, it remains unclear why they did so.

It wasn’t just Cohen — throughout 2016 and ’17, Trump himself repeatedly said things like “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS” and “I know nothing about Russia … I don’t deal there.” But the plea deal indicates those comments were misleading at best, as Trump was briefed about the proposed Russia project “on more than the three occasions,” Cohen acknowledged to Congress during his testimony.

In the day since news of Cohen’s deal broke, Trump abruptly moved the goalposts about his Russia contacts — his new position being that contacts did happen but there was nothing criminal about them.

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Simeon Bekbulatovich (Russian: Симеон Бекбулатович; born Sain-Bulat, Russian: Саин-Булат; died 5 January 1616) was a Muslim-born Khan of the Khanate of Qasim. After the period of the Oprichnina (1565–1572), Ivan the Terrible named Simeon Grand Prince of All Rus' (1575–1576). He participated in the Livonian war as a commander of the main regiment (bol'shoi polk) of the Muscovite army. Subsequently, he was named Grand Prince of Tver' and Torzhok (1576–1585). He went blind (or was blinded) in 1595 and was allegedly tonsured as a Christian monk under the monastic name Stefan in 1606. The first mention of Simeon in the sources is a reference to a certain Sail-Bulat in the Supplement to the Nikon Chronicle under 1561 as being in the entourage of his aunt, Princess Kochenei, when she married Ivan IV. Our earliest evidence that he was khan of Qasim comes from a statement that the Russian ambassador to Constantinople Ivan Novosil'tsev said to the Ottoman Sultan Selim II to that effect in 1570. In 1575 (either September or October), Ivan IV appointed Simeon as Grand Prince of All Rus' and styled himself merely as "Ivan of Moscow". Historians have a number of opinions concerning why Ivan did this. During his one-year "rule" in the Moscow Kremlin, Simeon married Anastasia Mstislavskaya, the great great granddaughter of Ivan III. In 1576, Simeon stepped down as Grand Prince of All Rus' and was appointed Grand Prince of Tver' and Torzhok. In 1585, Tsar Fedor Ivanovich removed his title as Grand Prince of Tver' and Torzhok and confined him to his estate at Kushalov. In 1595, Simeon went blind. According to Jacques Margeret, Simeon blamed Spanish wine that Boris Godunov sent him for his birthday. When Boris was elected Tsar in 1598, he required those at the court to sign a loyalty oath, which prohibited them from recognizing Simeon as tsar or corresponding with him. False Dmitry I required Simeon to be tonsured at the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, where he took the monastic name Stefan on April 3, 1606. When Vasilii Shuiskii was elected tsar, he ordered the elder Stefan taken to the Solovki Monastery on May 29, 1606. In 1612, as the result of a decree issued by Prince D. M. Pozharskii and "on the advice of all the land" (zemskii sobor), Stefan was returned to the Kirilo-Belozersk Monastery. Under Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, he returned to Moscow and resided in the Simonov Monastery until he died in 1616. He was buried in the Simonov Monastery next to his wife, who had died June 7, 1607, after having been veiled as the nun Alexandra. More details Android, Windows