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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Muscovy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This pretender to the throne, who came to be known as False Dmitriy I, gained support in Poland and marched to Moscow, gathering followers among the boyars and other elements as he went.
False Dmitriy I and his Polish garrison were overthrown, and a boyar, Vasiliy Shuyskiy, was proclaimed tsar in 1606.
False Dmitriy II, allied with the Poles, appeared.
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