Dmitry, to attract the support of powerful…

April 1604 CE

Dmitry, to attract the support of powerful Jesuits, publicly converts to Roman Catholicism on April 17, 1604, and persuades the papal nuncio Claudio Rangoni to back up his claim.

At this time he also meets Marina Mniszech, a Polish Orthodox noblewoman, who is a daughter of Jerzy Mniszech.

He asks for her hand and is promised it in return for giving to the Mniszech family the Russian towns of Pskov, Novgorod, Smolensk and Novhorod-Siverskyi; ...

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Warsaw > Warszawa Warszawa Poland View →

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Boris Godunov View → False Dmitriy I View → Sigismund III Vasa View →

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Christians, Roman Catholic View → Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus View → Russia, Tsardom of View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View →

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Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View → “Time of Troubles,” Russian View →

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Government View → Custom and Law View →

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