His predecessor was an inept fool nicknamed the "Bellringer," who married his sister Irina, and this ruler found his own reign brought down by the arrival of Grigory Otrepyev and his alleged ties to a death that occurred at Uglich.
Conrad Bussow provided graphic firsthand descriptions of the famine that broke out near the end of this man's rule, and which he attempted to address by passing a law binding peasants to their lands. In his diplomatic dealings, he refused a union proposed by Lew Sapieha and forced Jeremiah II into promoting his protegee, Job the Metropolitan, thus establishing a Patriarchate in his kingdom. His predecessor was an inept fool nicknamed the "Bellringer," who married his sister Irina, and this ruler found his own reign brought down by the arrival of Grigory Otrepyev and his alleged ties to a death that occurred at Uglich. Crowned by a zemsky sobor after Fyodor I died, this is, FTP, what man whose rule as czar challenged by the first False Dmitri?
Conrad Bussow provided graphic firsthand descriptions of the famine that broke out near the end of this man's rule, and which he attempted to address by passing a law binding peasants to their lands.
Boris {Godunov} or {Boris I}