To secure papal support, he publicly converted to Catholicism and he married a Polish noblewoman, Marina Mniszech.
To secure papal support, he publicly converted to Catholicism and he married a Polish noblewoman, Marina Mniszech. He swore allegiance to Sigismund III and with some Polish support marched into Russia, twice facing Russian forces before the death of Boris Gudonov* resulted in mass defections to his side and popular support for him. He was, however, unpopular, as he still had Polish forces in Moscow and his wife had not converted to Orthodoxy. On May 17th, conspirators led by Vasili Shuisky, stormed the Kremlin and he was killed, with his body later being shot out of a cannon toward Poland. FTP, name this tsar, the successor of Boris Gudonov, who claimed to be the deceased child of Ivan IV.
To secure papal support, he publicly converted to Catholicism and he married a Polish noblewoman, Marina Mniszech.
False Dmitri I