Dmitry of Uglich
| Dmitry Ivanovich | |
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| Tsarevich of Russia | |
Tsarevich Dmitry (1899), by Mikhail Nesterov.
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| Born | 19 October 1582 |
| Died | 15 May 1591 (aged 8) Uglich |
| Burial | Uglich later moved to Moscow |
| Dynasty | Rurik |
| Father | Ivan IV |
| Mother | Maria Nagaya |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox |
| Dmitry of Uglich | |
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| the Wonderworker, Slain Crown Prince or Pious Crown Prince | |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | May 15/ 28 |
Tsarevich Dmitry or Dmitri Ivanovich (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович, tr. Dmitrii Ivanovich; 19 October 1582 — 15 May 1591), also known as Dmitry of Uglich (Дмитрий Угличский, Uglichskii) or Dmitry of Moscow (Дмитрий Московский, Moskovskii), was a Russian tsarevich famously impersonated by a after the death of his father Ivan the Terrible.
Dmitry was the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and Ivan's only child born to Maria Nagaya. After the death of Ivan IV, Dmitry's older brother, Feodor I, ascended to power. However, the actual ruler of the Russian state was Feodor's brother-in-law, a boyar, Boris Godunov, who had had a claim on the Russian throne. According to a later widespread version, Godunov wanted to get rid of Dmitry, who could have succeeded the throne in light of Feodor's childlessness. In 1584, Godunov sent Dmitry, his mother and her brothers into exile to the Tsarevich's appanage city of Uglich. On 15 May 1591, Dmitry died from a stab wound, under mysterious circumstances.
Russian chroniclers and later historians offered two possible scenarios of what could have happened to Dmitry. The first theory is that Dmitry was killed by the order of Boris Godunov; the assassins made it look like an accident (this version was supported by the prominent 19th-century historians Nikolai Karamzin, Sergei Soloviev, Vasily Klyuchevsky and others). The critics of this version point out that Dmitry was Ivan's son from his fifth (or seventh) marriage, and thus illegitimate by the canon law (a maximum of three marriages are allowed in the Russian Orthodox Church). This would make any claim of Dmitry's for the throne dubious at best.
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