 Some of the scenes that have been excluded by the author from the final version of the play looked significant, one being Boris Godunov's conversation with tsarina Anastasia Romanovna about her granting him trusteeship right over Dmitry after Ioann and Fyodor's respective deaths.Also cut has been the scene of Godunov's talk with Dmitry's nanny.Both, according to Tolstoy, precipitated "Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich", the second play of the trilogy and both have made their way into it later, although, as critics noticed, some fragments of which exactly the same could be said, have been kept in the original text.