The story of the False Dimitri’s starts with the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible (Dmitry Ivanovich), who died aged 8 due to an assassination attempt. The exact number of imposters are unknown, as some people say Fourth and Third are the same person, due to bad record-keeping.
What is known, is that the imposters each claimed to have survived the assassination attempt, and took the Russian throne, reigning between them from 1602 to 1612. Further assassination attempts were tried against the first two imposters, which were then claimed by later imposters to have also failed.
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