The new tsar had at first tried…

The new tsar had at first tried to consolidate his power by visiting the sepulcher of Tsar Ivan and the convent of his widow Maria Nagaya, who has accepted him as her son.

The Godunov family has been executed with the exception of Princess Xenia Godunova, whom he had raped and imprisoned as his concubine.

In contrast, many of the noble families exiled by Godunov—such as the Shuiskys, Golitsins and Romanovs—have been granted his grace and allowed to return to Moscow.

Filaret (Feodor Romanov) he has appointed as metropolitan of Rostov.

Patriarch Job of Moscow, who had not recognized him as the new tsar, has been sent to exile.

Dmitriy plans to introduce a series of political and economical reforms.

He has restored Yuri's Day, the day when serfs are allowed to move to another lord, to ease the conditions of peasantry.

In foreign policies, Dmitriy seeks an alliance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Papal States.

He plans a war against the Ottoman Empire and orders the mass production of firearms.

In his correspondence he refers to himself as "Emperor of Russia", a century before Peter I, though this title isn't recognized at the time.

The alliance with Poland is furthered by Dimitriy's marriage on May 8, 1606 (per procura in Kraków), with the daughter of Jerzy Mniszech, Marina Mniszech, a Polish noblewoman with whom Dmitriy had fallen in love while in Poland.

King Sigismund is a prominent guest at this wedding.

Marina soon leaves to join her husband in Moscow, where she is crowned a Tsarina.

Usually when a Russian Tsar married a woman of another faith, she first converted to Orthodox Christianity.

It is believed that Dmitriy had made a concession to his Polish supporters to convert Russia to Catholicism after gaining the throne.

For this reason, Marina does not convert to the Orthodox faith.

This angers the Russian Orthodox Church, the boyars, and the population alike and increases the support of his enemies.