Omg, best story ever. And it ends with, "the End" smile. It's NEVER the end is it? Just more killing, fake leaders, and who gives a fuck about anything else. Hmmm, parallels. Commonality? Yeah, people are monsters.
Thanks for this. Russian history buff here, and I've always been partial to the Time of Troubles because it was so utterly bonkers. It's like 50 years of Ivan the Terrible had driven the whole country insane. Given all of Russian history, it seems incredible that any one part of it should be called THE Time of Troubles, but there it is. Couple of notes: I've always been partial to the notion that it was Vasili Shuisky rather than Boris Godunov who engineered the original Dmitri's demise. His behavior during and after is more than a little shady. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the second false Dmitri did not look remotely like the first one, so his "mother" Marfa snd his "wife" Marina joyfully recognizing him is just more icing on the whole bizarro episode. You can't make this stuff up, as they say.
I always love history that just sounds like everybody just committed to the bit, and ignored everyone pointing out how much they're lying.
Less cool in current events, but I'm sure our future space communists will laugh when they look at the "hurricane hitting Alabama because Sharpie" video, and the "old man gets scared by ramp, needs general to help him walk" video, and the "old man thinks political asylum seekers are universally insane cannibals" videos. Enjoy the follies of the past, future space communists!
"Remember this lady? Shame she was torn to shreds by 10,000 dogs in a gravel pit."
"Remember this guy? Remember how everybody laughed when he backed his bribery RV off a cliff and died?"
"Remember this lady? She was somehow related to the Senate Majority Leader and also died by backing her car up, but into a lake! She was driving some regime affiliated car, and for some reason they were programmed to seal completely if they got too wet!"
Always enjoyed teaching the Time of Troubles. False Dimitri's are a staple of Russian history far beyond that period. Pugachev's Rebellion is a good example.
Ivan kind of noped out of governing after killing his heir, which left rather a vacuum given that he had consolidated all power into his own hands; he died three years later.
That was fun. Nice to read history that is more screwed up than ours will be 400 years from now. If there are still historians of course.
Robyn, this is an exceptionally interesting article. Now can you write about the history of Boris Badenov?
No. Too much moose and squirrel.
Fun fact: Moussorgsky wrote an opera called Boris Godunov. I hate operas, but this one I love. That's how good it is.
just goes to prove that frankly unbelievable politics always comes out of russia, just as all the plagues of history came out of asia
Omg, best story ever. And it ends with, "the End" smile. It's NEVER the end is it? Just more killing, fake leaders, and who gives a fuck about anything else. Hmmm, parallels. Commonality? Yeah, people are monsters.
Thanks for this. Russian history buff here, and I've always been partial to the Time of Troubles because it was so utterly bonkers. It's like 50 years of Ivan the Terrible had driven the whole country insane. Given all of Russian history, it seems incredible that any one part of it should be called THE Time of Troubles, but there it is. Couple of notes: I've always been partial to the notion that it was Vasili Shuisky rather than Boris Godunov who engineered the original Dmitri's demise. His behavior during and after is more than a little shady. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the second false Dmitri did not look remotely like the first one, so his "mother" Marfa snd his "wife" Marina joyfully recognizing him is just more icing on the whole bizarro episode. You can't make this stuff up, as they say.
Don’t forget that it was also the source for one of the greatest operas ever written
https://youtu.be/2RGzcPfLcks?feature=shared
Ah, the Great Bummer of Russia.
There's reasons modern Russia's like it is.
Now, some say he looked like Zubin Mehta
Still others say bullshit, man, he was just
born next to the frozen beef pies at Boney’s market
Still others say he was just a crazy Italian who drove a red car.
You see it was hard to tell (but nobody knows),
Nobody knew for sure,
because he was so (he was so) mysterious.
Dmitry was harder to kill than Rasputin.
Or Kenny.
I always love history that just sounds like everybody just committed to the bit, and ignored everyone pointing out how much they're lying.
Less cool in current events, but I'm sure our future space communists will laugh when they look at the "hurricane hitting Alabama because Sharpie" video, and the "old man gets scared by ramp, needs general to help him walk" video, and the "old man thinks political asylum seekers are universally insane cannibals" videos. Enjoy the follies of the past, future space communists!
"Remember this lady? Shame she was torn to shreds by 10,000 dogs in a gravel pit."
"Remember this guy? Remember how everybody laughed when he backed his bribery RV off a cliff and died?"
"Remember this lady? She was somehow related to the Senate Majority Leader and also died by backing her car up, but into a lake! She was driving some regime affiliated car, and for some reason they were programmed to seal completely if they got too wet!"
Always enjoyed teaching the Time of Troubles. False Dimitri's are a staple of Russian history far beyond that period. Pugachev's Rebellion is a good example.
Will the real False Dmitry Please Stand Up?
I'm the real Dimitri! And so is my wife!
Daddy Ivan allegedly flipped out and bashed his son in the head with his scepter.
More like Ivan the Terrible Dad, amirite?
Famous painting of the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan#/media/File:Iv%C3%A1n_el_Terrible_y_su_hijo,_por_Ili%C3%A1_Repin.jpg
Ivan kind of noped out of governing after killing his heir, which left rather a vacuum given that he had consolidated all power into his own hands; he died three years later.
Ivan was known to make women faint by glaring at them.
"No one would ever believe I was Anastasia Romanov."
No Russian would, that's for sure. A Russian would call herself Anastasia Romanova.