In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign
invasion and the nation's first civil war - a time so horrible that
it acquired its own name in Russian history: "The Times of
Troubles." Internal and external forces came together to create a
storm of such magnitude that it threatened the very existence of
the nation. The country lay in ruins and a foreign army occupied
Moscow. For a while it seemed that Russia would never become an
independent nation again, but the Russian people found enough
strength and courage to stop the civil war and unite against
foreign invaders.
Two young people played a most important role in these events -
a pretender to the Russian throne who called himself Tsarevich
Dmitry, son of the late Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and Marina
Mnishek, the girl with whom he fell in love while on the run from
then Russian Tsar, Boris Godunov. Dmitry invaded Russia with a
small band of adventurers and defeated Godunov. He and Marina were
married and crowned in the Kremlin. Two weeks after their marriage,
Dmitry was killed in a riot and Marina was exiled to the far North.
But she escaped, and took part in a civil war herself. Twice she
came to the walls of Moscow with an army and two different men by
her side, fighting for her crown.
This is a true story how a young man of uncertain ancestry and
a young woman from a family of Polish nobility forced history to
engrave their names into the list of Tsar's families of Russia. In
their adventures, fights, travels, love stories, and turns of fate
throwing them into the depths of despair and raising them to the
heights of power and wealth, this couple lived more exciting lives
than millions of other human beings put together.
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