The first western account of the role of pretenders and impostors in early seventeenth-century Russia.

Introduction; Prologue: Tsarevich Dimitry and Boris Godunov; Part I. The First False Dimitry; 1. The fugitive monk; 2. The campaign for the crown; 3. The pretender on the throne; Part II. Rebels in the Name of Tsar Dimitry: 4. Tsar Dimitry Lives!; 5. The uprising continues; Part III. The Final Stages of the Troubles: 6. The Second False Dimitry: from Starodub to Tushino; 7. The Second False Dimitry: Tushino and Kaluga; 8. Tsarevich Ivan Dimitrievich; Epilogue: After the Troubles: Pretence in the Later Seventeenth Century; Conclusion.