VIII True Evidence That This Dmitry Was Not the Son of the Tyrant Ivan Vasilievich but an Alien

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Chronology xxxix
6. The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm
7. Prince Fedor Ivanovich 7
8. Concerning Tsar Boris Fedorovich, and How He Came to Rule 9
9. Fedor Borisovich, Son of Boris Fedorovich 44
10. The First Dmitry and His Reign 48
11. What Befell the Governor of Sandomir and the Poles after the Tsar's Murder 67
12. How the Muscovites Dealt with the Tsaritsa and her Father 71
13. What Happened to the Murdered Dmitry and His Champion Lord Peter Fedorovich Basmanov, and Also to the 2,135 Poles, Who Willed That the Second Dmitry Should Rescue Them in a Miraculous Fashion, and the Miracles Which Occurred When They Brought Dmitry's Corpse 76
14. True Evidence That This Dmitry Was Not the Son of the Tyrant Ivan Vasilievich but an Alien 81
15. Concerning Prince Vasily Shuisky and the Second Dmitry, Who Sought to Overthrow Shuisky, and Claimed to Be the Escaped Dmitry; also Concerning Sigismund III, King of Poland, How He Intervened, and How His Son, His Royal Highness Prince Wladyslaw, Was Offered the Muscovite Land and Throne 84
16. How Prince Grigory Shakhovskoy by Theft and Falsehood Brought Great Harm to Tsar Shuisky 87
17. Concerning Ivan Isaevich Bolotnikov, Who Came to Poland from Venice, and How in Poland a Certain Person, Who Allowed Himself to Be Addressed as Dmitry Tsar of Russia, Sent Him into Russia to Wage War 91
18. Concerning a Certain Cossack Sent to Poland to Urge Dmitry to Make Haste, or to Commit Everything to the King in Poland, and How a Certain Man from Shklov Claimed to Be Dmitry and Came into Russia 100
19. How Russia in the Year 1609 Was Beset on All Sides by War and Tribulation 117
20. Concerning the Return of Skopin and the Arrival of Jakob de la Gardie with Three Thousand Foreigners 122
21. Concerning Aleksandr Jozef Lisowski, the Second Dmitry's Commander Over Several Thousand Cossacks, and How He Proceeded with Them Too Deep into the Country, and How the Enemy Cut Off His Retreat to the Encampment, and How for This Reason He Was Compelled to Retreat to Suzdal, and How, Finally, Having Effected a Wide Diversion, He Withdrew Towards Pskov 124
22. Concerning the Embassy of His Majesty the King of Poland to the Poles in Dmitry's Encampment 126
23. Concerning Shuisky's Deposition; Also the Destruction of the Second Dmitry and the Election of Lord Wladyslaw, Son of King Sigismund of Poland 144
24. What Occurred in the Year 1611 in Russia, Especially in the Capital City of Moscow, and Why the Polish King Did Not Allow His Son Wladyslaw, Who Had Been Chosen Russian Tsar, to Proceed Thither, and What Great Misfortune and Irreparable Harm Resulted Therefrom 154
25. Appendices
26. Conrad Bussow's Missive to Duke Friedrich-Ulrich of Brunswick, 28 November 1613 171
27. Conrad Bussow's Letter to J. Peparino, 3 February 1614 174
28. Bussow's Map of Moscow 177
29. Notes 181
30. Bibliography 225
31. Index 233