# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/false-dmitry-i
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:33:42.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/false-dmitry-i"
name: "False Dmitry I"
slug: "false-dmitry-i"
description: "He ruled Russia for eleven months under a stolen name. False Dmitry I claimed to be the miraculously escaped son of Ivan the Terrible, rode a Polish-backed invasion to the throne in 1605, and died in a coup before the year was out — the first and most successful of three impostors who tried the same ruse during the Time of Troubles."
tagline: "Tsar of Russia (1605–1606)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dmitry_Pretender_of_the_Emperor_of_Russia.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1600"
deathDate: "1606-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.26
  momentum:             0.5506221884676054
  historical:           23.76695066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The real Dmitry of Uglich, youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, likely died in 1591 at age eight. The pretender who took his name told a story of switched bodies and monastery exile, then fled to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth when Boris Godunov tried to seize him. Polish nobles doubted him but backed him anyway. He invaded Russia in 1604, and when Godunov died suddenly mid-war, disaffected boyars deposed the new tsar and opened the gates. On 21 July 1605 he entered Moscow; the dead boy's mother accepted him as her son. His openness to Catholicism and foreigners grated the boyars, who killed him on 17 May 1606 in the Moscow Uprising. His widow would later recognize a second pretender as her husband returned.