Tsarevich Dmitry died at Uglich in 1591, a man using his name took the throne in 1605, and Moscow hanged his widow's small son in 1614

Dmitry, son of Ivan IV and Maria Nagaya, was born on 19 October 1582. After Ivan's death he and his mother were sent to Uglich on 24 May 1584. He died there on 15 May 1591, aged 8. Townspeople killed the clerk Mikhail Bityagovsky and others. A commission including the boyar Vasily Shuisky questioned about 140 people and found that Dmitry had an epileptic fit while playing with a knife and fell on it. The council ruled his mother's brothers and the townspeople traitors and exiled many to Siberia. Tsar Fyodor died childless in 1598. Around 1600 a man appeared claiming to be Dmitry. He invaded in October 1604, entered Moscow on 20 June 1605 and was crowned on 21 July. On 8 May 1606 he married Marina Mniszech. On the night of 17 May 1606 boyars led by Shuisky killed him in the Kremlin. Shuisky, now tsar, had the real Dmitry's remains brought from Uglich to the Archangel Cathedral, where they arrived on 3 June 1606. Marina accepted a second pretender, the "thief of Tushino," as her husband; he was killed on 11 December 1610. She had a son, Ivan. In 1613 Mikhail Romanov, great-nephew of Ivan IV's first wife, was elected tsar. In July 1614 Moscow's musketeers captured Marina and the boy. He was hanged in Moscow; Brockhaus-Efron gives his age as four. Between 1645 and 1676 another man claiming to be "Tsarevich Ivan, son of Tsar Dmitry" appeared, and one such man was hanged in Moscow.