person
False Dmitry I
the Pretender
also: Лжедмитрий, Dmitry, Димитрий
The pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible believed murdered in childhood, and used that claim to seize the Russian throne in 1605; the speaking role in the monologue from Pushkin's "Boris Godunov" that Svetlovidov recites.