Children also suffered in the struggle for power. You can remember the son of Marina Mnishek, about whom almost nothing is known, and who went down in history under the nickname “Ivashka-Vorenok”.
If everything is more or less clear with his mother, then with his father, to put it mildly, not so much.
After the murder of Fyodor Godunov and his mother on June 20, 1605, False Dmitry solemnly entered Moscow. On July 18, Maria Nagaya (monastically Martha) solemnly recognized him as her son, who was miraculously saved. On July 30, the royal wedding took place.
Back in 1604, False Dmitry became engaged to the daughter of the Sandomierz governor Jerzy (Yuri) Mniszek Marina. The romantic version says that it was great love. A more down-to-earth one suggests that it was a good deal. One side needed help in the planned adventure, while the other was seduced by the royal title.
For several months, Princess Ksenia Godunova was next to False Dmitry, who was distinguished by his weakness for the female sex. This stopped the bride and her father from coming to Russia. And yet, False Dmitry decided to keep his promises, sending Ksenia to a monastery.
In November 1605, Marina Mnishek was engaged to clerk Vlasyev, who portrayed the face of the groom-tsar, and on May 3, 1606, she entered Moscow with great pomp, accompanied by her father and a large retinue.
On May 8, Marina’s wedding and coronation took place. She became the first woman in Russia to be crowned.
Portraits of False Dmitry I and Marina Mnishek
Only the marriage with Mnishek’s daughter and the excesses of their Polish retinue during the wedding celebrations served as one of the reasons for the death of False Dmitry and played into the hands of the conspirators, led by Vasily Shuisky. It was he who in 1591 led the investigation in Uglich into the death of the real Tsarevich Dmitry.
On May 17, the conspirators broke into the Kremlin. False Dmitry, according to some sources, was killed on the spot, according to others, he jumped out of the window, where he, still alive, was brutally finished off. 
Vening K. B. The last minutes of Dmitry the Pretender. 1879.
Muscovites mocked his body for two days.
Marina and Jerzy Mniszek were spared. Vasily Shuisky, who became the new tsar, exiled them under guard to Yaroslavl, where they lived until July 1608, when it was decided to release the impostor’s widow to Poland. 
M. Klodt. Marina Mniszek and her father Jerzy Mniszek in Yaroslavl. 1883
It is worth noting that Vasily Shuisky tried to protect himself from the new “miraculously saved Tsarevich Dmitry.” By his order, the remains of the prince were transferred to Moscow and buried in the Archangel Cathedral. Nun Martha, when the coffin was opened, once again recognized her son. Almost immediately, miracles began to occur at the burial, and the prince was canonized in 1606.
Only this, undoubtedly, smart action did not save Shuisky from the new contender for the royal title. False Dmitry II appeared, who went down in history under the name of the “Tushino thief”, since, having defeated Shuisky’s troops in the battle of Bolkhov, he approached Moscow and set up a camp in Tushino. 
Portrait of False Dmitry II
The Tushino thief also received help from the Poles and recognition from many cities and boyars.
On his orders, the Poles intercepted Marina Mnishek and her father, who were trying to return home, recaptured them from the armed royal escort and took them to Tushino. Marina did not immediately recognize False Dmitry II as her legal husband. Perhaps she even married him.
However, throughout 1608 - 1609, the Russian people were actually torn between two kings and two royal courts. It is worth noting that it was in the Tushino camp that Filaret Romanov was installed as patriarch. So there was nothing out of the ordinary in the actions of the ambitious Marina.
And yet, False Dmitry II was unable to enter Moscow and repeat the success of his impostor predecessor, and in December 1609 he fled to Kaluga. Marina followed him. In Kaluga, her second husband was killed on December 11, 1610 by a certain Pyotr Urusov. The reason for the murder was an old conflict, and not at all political reasons.
In January 1611, Marina Mnishek gave birth to a son named Ivan. Who was the father of the child is a controversial issue. The two most likely candidates are the Tushinsky thief (hence the nickname “Vorenok” that stuck to him) and the ataman Ivan Martynovich Zarutsky, who supported Marina’s ambitions to the end. There is a version that he was not the child of Marina herself, since she, having failed to become the tsar’s wife, wanted to become at least the tsar’s mother, and after the murder of False Dmitry II, she falsely declared herself pregnant.
Nevertheless, several cities recognized this child as the legitimate Tsar Ivan Dmitrievich.
Back in the summer of 1610, Shuisky was deposed, and the son of the Polish king Sigismund III, Vladislav, was elected as the new Russian Tsar. The Poles also suggested that Marina renounce her claims in favor of the prince, but she did not agree. Now we had to fear our own compatriots.
Until June 1612, Marina with her son and Zarutsky were near Moscow. It is believed that she even tried to send assassins to Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, but the plan failed. Soon they had to flee from the approaching second militia. First to Ryazan. Then to Astrakhan. Then - up the Urals. Zarutsky tried to find support and gather an army in order to finally place Ivan on the royal throne, but to no avail.
As a result, Marina Mnishek, her son Ivan and Zarutsky were handed over to the Moscow troops by the Cossacks and taken to Moscow in June 1614. By that time, Mikhail Romanov, the son of Patriarch Filaret, had already become king.
The new government did not spare the people who created so many reasons for unrest.
Zarutsky was impaled. Marina was sent to prison. The most popular version is that it was kept in the Kolomna Kremlin, and that is why one of its towers is nicknamed “Marinkina”. 
Marinkina Tower of the Kolomna Kremlin
It is unknown whether she died of natural causes, committed suicide, or was murdered. But there is a legend that before her death, Marina Mnishek cursed the Romanov family. It seems there was a reason...
Her son Ivan, who was not even four years old, was publicly hanged at the Serpukhov Gate. Another version says that the noose did not tighten, and the child died for several hours from the cold.
Of course, this boy presented a danger as a possible source of trouble. The publicity of the execution is also understandable, since it could prevent rumors about another miraculous salvation.
And yet we have to remember that the Romanov dynasty began not only with a peaceful election, but also with the death of a small child. 
Ugryumov G.I. The calling of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov to the kingdom on March 14, 1613. No later than 1800.
VORENOK - SON OF MARINA MNISHEK
Moscow was frozen in fear. Blood was flowing; in dungeons, in monasteries, victims groaned.
Karamzin
Some scientists argue that from time to time a passion falls on our planet for a certain time, caused either by sunspots or who knows what stellar radiation, and that part of the planet that is exposed to it experiences a period of political instability, is subject to disasters, social cataclysms, pandemics and other nightmares. Sometimes it seems that the territory of Russia is especially often the object of attention of these misfortunes.
Most often, shocks of this kind were followed by important changes in the political, social and moral structure of the country that experienced them. However, the troubled era in Rus' did not change anything, did not introduce anything new into the state mechanism, into the political system, into the way of public life, into morals and aspirations; nothing that would direct the flow of Russian life onto a new path, in a sense favorable or unfavorable for it. A terrible shake-up shook everything up and brought untold disasters to the people; It was not possible to recover so quickly after that Rus...
The central figures of the troubled times were the Polish beauty Marina Mniszech and her two husbands, one of whom pretended to be the Russian Tsar Demetrius, and when he was torn to pieces beyond recognition by Moscow residents outraged by his incompetent rule, a second contender appeared in his place. He also called himself Dimitri. Although Marina could have retired to Poland long ago, she really wanted to remain the Russian queen. And it wasn’t just that she ended up on the throne - her reign and marriage to False Dmitry were all consequences of Polish aggression against Russia. However, False Dmitry was a guy no matter what, Marina shared a bed with him and soon conceived a child, nicknamed by the people while still in the womb of her mother, “the little crow.” True, it was not the child’s fault that his dad was called “thief.” In those days, this was the name in Rus' not only for representatives of criminal structures, but in general for all criminals, rebels, and extremists. The first False Dmitry was nicknamed the Tushino thief (because his headquarters was in Tushino, near Moscow), the second - the Kaluga thief, because he ruled Russia from Kaluga.
There he was overtaken by death at the hands of the Tatar prince. The Tatar cut off his head and avenged his father, the so-called “Kasimov Tsar,” a Tatar prince killed by a “thief.” However, he did much more - he opened the way to the throne for the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich. The Poles had no one else to propose to the Russian throne. Plus, the militia of Minin and Pozharsky played an important role in the expulsion of the Poles. But at that moment in Kaluga all the people were indignant. “Beat all the Tatars,” shouted the Kaluga residents. Marina, who was about to give birth, went with the boyars in a sleigh to retrieve the headless body of her husband and brought him to the city. At night, grabbing a torch, Marina ran bare-chested in the middle of the crowd, screaming, tearing her clothes and hair, and, noticing that the Kaluga residents were not too sensitive to her grief, she turned to the Don Cossacks, begging them for revenge. They were commanded by a certain Ivan Zarutsky, who was not indifferent to Marina. He inspired his Cossacks; They attacked the Tatars they met in Kaluga and killed up to two hundred people. A few days later, Marina gave birth to a son, who was named Ivan. She demanded that the army and people swear allegiance to him as the rightful heir. But Jan Sapega and his army, who rushed to her at her written request, were unable to take Kaluga. The people of Kaluga saved their city. They didn’t like Marina, people called her a witch...
The death of the “thief” was a turning point in the troubled era and was an event unfavorable for the Polish king Sigismund. All the warring parties were dissatisfied with the king. Now Sigismund no longer had such a serious rival as Dmitry, and all those dissatisfied with the Poles united, inspired by one thought - to free the Russian land from foreigners. For Marina Mnishek, a life full of adventures began in the camp of the Cossack freemen, there, in the ataman’s tent, her child, a three-year-old boy, found his first toys, whom Zarutsky and his comrades, without hesitation, proclaimed tsar. However, no one except the Cossacks seriously considered this candidacy.
In October 1612, Moscow was liberated from Polish troops. On July 11, 1613, Mikhail Fedorovich was crowned king. Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky was granted a boyar; Minin received the title of Duma nobleman. But more than all of them, and more than anyone else, was awarded to Dimitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy, a former boyar of the “Tushino thief”, an associate of Zarutsky. He not only retained under the legitimate tsar the rank bestowed upon him by the “thief,” but also received, during the statelessness, from the great Zemstvo Council Vaga, a rich region that had once belonged to Godunov and the Shuiskys. And the sovereign, not yet firm in his power, approved it for him as a reward for his great exploits and benefits rendered to the Russian land.
Nevertheless, the unrest that was raising its head in the south of the state could not but worry the new sovereign. Robber rabble from all over Rus' flocked to Lebedyan, where Ivashka Zarutsky set up his camp. Ivashka was also supported by the people of Cherkasy.
The tsar appointed Prince Ivan Nikitich Odoevsky to suppress the uprising. He was ordered to help the governors of the cities - Mikhailov, Zaraysk, Yelets, Bryansk, as well as Suzdal and Vladimir. They sent collectors to collect netchiks, the children of the boyars, to Ryazan, Tarusa, Aleksin, Tula and other cities. At the end of April 1613, Odoevsky with his collected forces moved to Lebedyan. Zarutsky and his Cherkassy went to Voronezh. Odoevsky chased him, and near Voronezh, at the end of May, a battle took place between them, which lasted two whole days. Zarutsky was defeated. They took his baggage train, hawsers, and banners. Zarutsky ran across the Don, to the Bear. Odoevsky returned to Tula, deciding that the job was done. But in the spring of the following year, Zarutsky found himself in Astrakhan and found refuge there. In the fall he established himself in this city.
Zarutsky had far-reaching plans; He planned to attract the forces of the Persian Shah Abbas to Rus', to drag Turkey into the matter, to raise up the Yurt Tatars, Nogais, Volga Cossacks, to pull together all the wandering gangs of the Moscow State and with everyone to go up the Volga, to conquer the cities to his power. Given the extreme lack of funds necessary for protection, and the general impoverishment of the state, he had a great chance of success. Soon Zarutsky captured the Volga fishing grounds and fisheries and turned their income to his own benefit, thus depriving the Moscow State of this source. The Astrakhan voivode Ivan Khvorostinin opposed the inciting unrest, but Zarutsky killed him and killed many of his best people along with him. Having captured Astrakhan, he freed the Nogai prince Jan-Arslan, who was held in prison, the enemy of Ishterek, who commanded the Yurt Tatars. The latter recognized the king already elected by Russia and sent his Murza to beat him with his brow, when suddenly Zarutsky sent the Jan-Arslan Tatars and his thieves against him, and they told him: “The whole Christian world has proclaimed the son of Tsar Demetrius sovereign. Serve too, give a subscription, give your son an amanat, but be careful not to be cunning, do not make colorful speeches with us, otherwise we will move Jan-Arslan and the Seven-Rodians, your enemies, against you, and we ourselves will go against you.” Having taken hostages from the Tatars, Zarutsky now had impressive allies. He demanded that the Astrakhan people swear allegiance to him.
Before the winter St. Nicholas Day, Zarutsky, who was constantly in the Stone Town, sent the Cossack Timofey Chulkov to the settlement with a letter and ordered people of all ranks to put their hands on it, but did not allow anyone to look at the letter; Astrakhan priests and deacons signed their names, and illiterate laymen put their hands behind them, and no one knew what they were all up to. Those who resisted or later showed their dislike for Zarutsky were seized at night, tortured by fire and thrown into the water. Every day someone was executed; blood was flowing. But every day Marina thought about the possibility of a sudden uprising. She did not order the bell to be rung early for matins, as if to ensure that her son would get hurt from the ringing. She did this because - as one of the fleeing Astrakhan residents explained - she was afraid of the “arrival”. Zarutsky sent an embassy to the Shah and gave Astrakhan citizenship to Persia: by this he thought to drag Persia and the Moscow State into war. “Lovely” letters were sent to the Volga and Don Cossacks. The Don decided to remain faithful to the chosen one, at the request of the Cossacks, on an equal basis with the zemstvo people, the Moscow Tsar, but between the Volga, consisting of a rabble of various fugitives who lived in villages along the banks of the Volga, below the then exterminated Saratov, and along the Volga tributaries, a division occurred: young people got carried away “charm” and were preparing to go up the Volga to Samara in the spring. “We,” they said, “would go anywhere, just to make money.” Two Volga atamans, Neupokoy-Karga and Karaulko, were in Astrakhan near Zarutsky, and from there they worried their brothers on the Volga. There were also some of the Volga atamans who did not want to go with Zarutsky, but deceived him: they hoped to lure out a salary from the “thief” and waited for the arrival of the Persian ships.
Winter was coming to an end. In the Moscow State, measures were taken to suppress theft. The Tsar entrusted the cleansing of Astrakhan to the boyar Prince Ivan Nikitich Odoevsky; His companion was the okolnichy Semyon Vasilyevich Golovin, once Skopin’s brother-in-law and associate; Yudin was their clerk. In March they went to Kazan to gather troops.
Meanwhile, the tsar sent letters to Zarutsky, promising him complete forgiveness if the rebellion was stopped. However, the adventurer decided to play to the end.
Suspecting that Zarutsky was going to commit reprisals against the unarmed population, the Astrakhan residents decided to forestall him and rebelled against the impostor. The Yurt Tatars, as soon as they learned that the Astrakhan people had fallen away from theft, and also heard that the tsar’s army was coming from above towards Astrakhan, they themselves fell away from Zarutsky and chopped up the three people he had sent. On the first day of the strife, archer Nikita Korobin fled from Astrakhan with eighteen comrades to Samara and let Odoevsky know. The governor immediately sent an army to Astrakhan.
Meanwhile, other forces also opposed Zarutsky, in particular, Khokhlov’s detachment from Terk, which scattered the remnants of the “thieves’” army. Zarutsky, Marina and the child fled; for some time they hid in the reeds on two plows. But the fishermen found out about this and informed the authorities.
The archers besieged the Cossacks; They did not expect guests, were not prepared to meet them, and, seeing that there was nowhere to go, the next day “they tied up Zarutsky and Marinka with their son and some monk Nikolai, handed them over to the Streltsy heads, and they themselves announced that they would beat them with their foreheads and kiss the cross to Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich. They also took the children of the Nogai prince Ishterek and Murza Jan-Arslan, captured by Zarutsky and who were among his atamans. Only the atamans, Trenka Us and Virzig, somehow left and were engaged in robbery for some time, but no longer in the name of the thieves’ authorities.”
On July 6, the prisoners were brought to Astrakhan. The Cossacks, who were “in the business of thieves, kissed the cross for Tsar Mikhail.” It turned out to be dangerous to keep Zarutsky and Marina in Astrakhan, so as not to cause unrest. On July 13, Odoevsky sent them to Kazan. Zarutsky was escorted by Streltsy head Baim Golchin. With him for the coast were 130 archers and 100 Astrakhan men. Marinka and his son were accompanied by another Streltsy leader, Mikhailo Slovtsov: with him were five hundred Samara Streltsy men. The order given to them said this:
“Mikhail and Baim should take Marina and her son and Ivashka Zarutsky with great care, shackled, and camp carefully so that thieves’ people would not come at them unknown. And thieves’ people will come from where they are, and they will have the power to beat Mikhail and Baim - Marina with the “crow” and Ivashka Zarutsky to death, so that the thieves do not take them alive.”
In this form they were brought to Kazan, and from there, by royal decree, in this form, of course, Marina arrived in that very Moscow, where she once entered with such splendor for the first time in her life, hoping to reign there and receive worship.
Soon after, behind the Serpukhov Gate, the people watched the last scene of their many years of tragedy.
Zarutsky was impaled.
Marina's four-year-old son was executed - he was publicly hanged.
There are different stories about the future fate of Marina Mnishek. Polish historians claim that she was killed. The Russians, on the contrary, informed the Poles during the exchange of prisoners that “Marinka died in Moscow in prison from illness and from melancholy of her own free will.” It is unknown what punishments and curses the mother whispered in her dungeon, having experienced such a monstrous grief. We hope that the heavens took pity on her and sent her to a quick death. “We needed her to be alive to expose your untruths,” Zhelyabuzhsky told the Poles at the end of 1614. Most likely, the authorities were preparing some other noisy trial. After the reprisal against Zarutsky, the Cherkasy continued to rage for some time in different parts of the state. Among their atamans was a certain Zakhar Zarutsky, perhaps a brother or relative of Ivan. It was defeated and destroyed by boyar Lykov near Balakhna on January 4, 1615.
The troubles continued even after, during the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich, as a consequence of the “time of troubles”; but these troubles no longer had those specific aspirations - to overthrow the order of the state and to raise the banner of some thieves' kings for this purpose.
The execution of the child, about whom we collected bit by bit information from contemporaries, did not play any role in history, except perhaps that no “Ivan Dmitrievich” ever laid claim to the role of the Russian Tsar. However, such measures rarely stopped impostors.
The formula of the charge, the verdict, and the composition of the judges remained unknown. It is unclear what crime the three-year-old child could be charged with. Besides the fact that this child could become a cause for trouble sometime in the foreseeable future. Quite a few of these “iron masks” languished innocently in prisons all over the world. But the royal “bastards” were not executed just because they were born. In Rus', the cells of monasteries were actually used for this purpose. In the end, they would send a killer, or something, and the next morning they would announce that “the baby accidentally stabbed himself with a knife,” as was customary in Holy Rus'. It would be possible to drown him in a barrel of malvasia according to the good English custom. Or as the Turks practiced - a silk cord around the neck and that’s all for a short time. However, the infidels are not a decree for us. Our Orthodox state has chosen such a terrible and severe punishment as public execution. Perhaps it should have served as a lesson to anyone who dared to even think of getting to the Russian throne through “thieves’ means.” Or maybe one of the boyars considered this symbolic - the time of troubles began with the death of a child, and it will end with the death of an innocent child...
You had to be Nostradamus to foresee that 300 years after the accession to the throne of the first of the Romanov dynasty, the last of his descendants would die in the damp basement of the Ipatiev house. And again these will be innocent children... The curse of Marina Mniszech overtook the killers through the centuries. Maybe they called her a witch correctly...
From the book Encyclopedic Dictionary (M) author Brockhaus F.A.Mniszek Mniszek (Marina or in Polish, Marianna Yuryevna) is the daughter of the Sendomierz governor, the wife of the first False Dmitry. M.'s acquaintance with False Demetrius, adorned with romantic stories, took place around 1604, and at the same time the latter, after his famous confession, was engaged
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Ivashka Tsarevich, the son of Maria Mnishek from the second impostor, was born in 1611. Kaluga, Kazan and Vyatka recognized him as tsar. Captured in 1614 with his mother and Zarutsky, strangled in Moscow.
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Born in December 1611 after the death of his father, d. in August 1614
“Voryonok,” as the people nicknamed him, was captured along with Marina and Zarutsky on Yaik, brought to Moscow and strangled
1. Archbishop Arseniy Elassonsky
In the summer of November 7123, on... the day of the Great Sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Mikhailo Fedorovich of All Russia, the autocrat ordered (...) And something the English ambassador Ivan Ulyanov will ask about the thief about Ivashka Zarutsky, and about Marinka, and about her son, not knowing that they were caught and Astrakhan was cleansed from the thieves' troubles, where are they now, and that the sovereign's people were being dealt with by them (...) Ivashka Zaruttskaya was executed for his theft by death, and Marinka with her son in the belly, and God willing Sovereign: does the stomach tell them to punish them, or, according to their evil deeds, does it order them to be executed.”
5. Order to the ambassador in Poland (November 1614):
http://lib.rus.ec/b/80005/read
“The thief Ivashka Zarutsky and the thief Marinka and her son were brought to Moscow to expose their theft. Ivashka and Marinka’s son were executed for their evil deeds, and Marinka died of illness and melancholy in Moscow of her own free will, and the sovereign and the boyars needed her to live to expose your untruths. And now the fatherland of the Tsar’s Majesty has been cleared of the thieves’ unrest and all the thieves’ unrest has been remembered.”
The fate of Tsarevich Ivan Dmitrievich (years of life 1611 - 1614), who in Moscow was called nothing more than “little crow” and “out-of-the-way,” turned out to be tragic. His father, who proclaimed himself for the second time the miraculously saved Tsar Dmitry Ivanovich, the son of Ivan the Terrible, is usually called False Dmitry II in historical literature, as well as the “Tushinsky thief.” He showed up in the city of Starodub in the spring of 1607, a year after the overthrow and death of the first impostor, and began to pose as the surviving king.
The new adventurer was a man of unknown origin, although there are many theories about this. Some claim that this is the priest’s son Matvey Verevkin, others that he is the son of the Starodub archer. There is also a version that the impostor was the son of a Jew from the city of Shklov in present-day Belarus.
Marina Mniszek’s meeting with the “resurrected” Tsar brought disappointment. He was a rude and ill-mannered man, but she recognized him as her husband. Despite her youth (she was 19 years old at the time), she decisively chose the dangerous path of fighting for the return of the Moscow throne. However, in December 1610, the second impostor was killed by one of his confidants, Prince Peter Urusov. A month later, Marina gave birth to a son, who was baptized according to the Orthodox rite and named Ivan, and the Cossack-noble army and its leaders declared the baby the legal heir to the Moscow throne.
Marina now has a loyal and devoted person to her - Ivan Martynovich Zarutsky, ataman of the Cossack army, a determined opponent of the Polish interventionists, one of the leaders of the first people's militia.
After the establishment of Mikhail Romanov on the throne, the new dynasty was most afraid of Ataman Zarutsky, Marina Mnishek and her son, a potential contender for the Muscovite kingdom.
The last act of the tragedy took place in 1614. The Cossack ataman fled from Astrakhan, which was approached by tsarist troops superior in numbers and weapons, but above all in organization. Among the fugitives, his long-time associate Trenia Us began to lead. They leave for Yaik, but, saving his own life, the ataman’s best friend betrays Zarutsky, Marina and her son to the royal governors. He himself managed to escape.
After interrogations and torture, I.M. Zarutsky was subjected to a terrible execution - impaled. Marina Mnishek’s young son was also executed. You can read about this in the notes of the Dutch traveler Elias Herkman, who used eyewitness accounts that he collected during his stay in Moscow during the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich. The quote is a bit long, but it's worth reading.
“Then they publicly hanged Dimitri’s son... Many trustworthy people saw this child being carried with his head uncovered [to the place of execution]. Since there was a snowstorm at that time and the snow was hitting the boy in the face, he asked several times in a crying voice: “Where are you taking me?”...
But the people carrying the child, who had not harmed anyone, calmed him down with words until they brought him to the place where there was a gallows, on which they hanged the unfortunate boy, like a thief, on a thick rope woven from sponges. Since the child was small and light, it was impossible to properly tighten the knot with this rope due to its thickness, and the half-dead child was left to die on the gallows." E. Herkman. "Tales of Massa and Herkman about the Time of Troubles in Russia." St. Petersburg, 1874 , page 331.
The killing of people, including children, who could interfere with the strengthening of power, especially a new government forced to prove the legality, or as they like to say now, the legitimacy of its claims, was a common occurrence in the Middle Ages. This happens, although not often, in our time. But even for those cruel years of the Troubles, it was not entirely unusual for the execution of a four-year-old child to take place in public. And Mikhail Romanov’s entourage did not stop the fact that the Tsar’s father Filaret was proclaimed patriarch by False Dmitry II, the father of the unfortunate child.
After the execution of the Romanov royal family in 1918, historians involuntarily drew attention to some impressive coincidences that marked the beginning and end of the reign of the House of Romanov. It is known, for example, that in 1612, immediately after the Kremlin was liberated from the Poles, where they were staying during its siege by the people’s militia, Mikhail Fedorovich and his mother left for Kostroma and hid in the Ipatiev Monastery. And in the summer of 1918, the Romanov royal family (former Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his family and servants) was shot in the basement of a house with the same name, in the Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918.
And the second coincidence is that the dynasty began with the murder of a four-year-old child and ended with the murder, including the emperor’s fourteen-year-old son.
These obvious coincidences have given rise to many statements, the authors of which see in this something mystical, otherworldly. Moreover, there is a legend that Marina Mnishek, in despair, cursed the entire Romanov family right up to the last tsar, “until the entire dynasty fades away.”
It seems that the legend itself is similar to a literary work that appeared after 1918. It fits within the framework of mystical works. For literary works, the plot is certainly interesting, even exciting. But if we have in mind real knowledge of real historical events, then it is preferable to remain on the basis of more or less obvious facts, which are already extremely dramatic.
As for the fate of Marina Mniszech, it seems to me that the official version of the then rulers of Russia, which was reported to the Poles during the exchange of prisoners, is not very convincing, that Marina died in Moscow, in prison from illness and “out of melancholy of her own free will.” It's hard to believe that a 26-year-old woman died of melancholy in less than six months. Most likely, closer to the truth (considering the prevailing customs of that time) were the rumors that spread among the Poles that Marina was either drowned or strangled.
Ivan Dmitrievich(1611, Kaluga - 1614, Moscow) - the young son of Marina Mnishek from False Dmitry II (according to another version - Ivan Zarutsky). Supporters called him Ivan Dmitrievich and was considered a contender for the Russian throne, and opponents called Ivashka Voronok.
Biography
Born in Kaluga in December 1610 or January 1611, a few days after the murder of his father by the Nogai prince of Russian citizenship Pyotr Urusov. Initially, the residents of Kaluga recognized him as a prince (heir to the throne).
What a sad and melancholy day this day, December 11, was for the pious Tsarina Marina Yuryevna, is easy to imagine, since both of her spouses, over the course of just a few years, were so pitifully killed one after another: Demetrius I - May 17, 1606 in Moscow, and Dimitri II - here in Kaluga on December 11, 1610, when she was in the last months of pregnancy. Soon after this, she gave birth to a son, whom the Russian nobles, with her permission and consent, took from her and promised to raise him in secret so that he would not be killed by his pursuers, and if God grants him life, he would become a sovereign in Rus' in the future. She, the queen, was kept and revered like a king at that time.
Konrad Bussow. Moscow Chronicle.
After the appearance of False Dmitry III, the issue of the rights of the baby became more acute. People appeared claiming that after the death of her husband, Marina Yuryevna falsely declared herself pregnant, and Ivan was not her son. In 1611-12, the baby was with his mother in Kolomna.
Meanwhile, Ataman Zarutsky, who at that time was standing with his Cossack army in the Tushino camp near Moscow, began to actively nominate Ivan as heir to the throne. This development of events was opposed by the Patriarch of Moscow Hermogenes, who addressed the zemstvo people with an admonition “don’t want your son to take over the kingdom of the damned gentleman Marinkin.” In 1612, I.M. Zarutsky retreated to Kolomna, and then to the Ryazan lands, to the city of Mikhailov. Taking Marina Yuryevna and her son with him, he everywhere proclaimed Ivan the true heir to the throne.
At the beginning of 1613, Marina Yuryevna declared the rights of her son as the heir to the throne to the Zemsky Council, which considered her among others (the council decided to call Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov to the throne).
“...And the King of Lithuania and Sweden and their children, for their many untruths, and no other people should be robbed of the Moscow state, and Marinka and her son are not wanted.”
S. F. Platonov. Essays on Russian history.
These same great boyars consulted with the bishops, boyars, with the entire synclite, with all the people and the army about the state of the state and regarding the [election] of the tsar. Only Ivan Zarutsky turned out to be disobedient, because out of fear of the boyar Prince Dimitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, he fled in advance with a few Cossacks and, coming to the city of Kolomna, took Queen Maria and her son there and retired to the border cities near Tataria. There, the Cossacks who were with him established themselves by force, proclaiming Marina queen and her son, the son of Tsar Dimitri, king, but the cities and people did not submit to them. However, after many days, Ivan Zarutsky and Maria with her son and followers, taking flight, died, because Miron, the commander and governor of Ryazan, with his troops pursued him, Ivan Zarutsky, and Maria, and their adherents to the end.
Arseny Elassonsky. Memoirs from Russian history.
Kazan, Vyatka and other cities, to which the news of the council’s decision did not reach for a long time, took the oath to Ivan Dmitrievich.
On July 29 (according to the old art.), having suffered a defeat near Voronezh in a battle with the army of Prince Odoevsky, Zarutsky and Marina and the child crossed the Don and went to Astrakhan, where they were supported by the Volga, Don, Yaik and Terek Cossacks.
In 1614, the Kazan Streltsy head Vasily Khokhlov besieged the Astrakhan Kremlin and forced Zarutsky, along with Marina Mnishek, to flee to Yaik. On June 23, 1614, the Streltsy heads Gordey Palchikov and Sevastyan Onuchin besieged Zarutsky in the town of Yaik Cossacks on Bear Island and, after a long and stubborn battle, forced the Cossacks on June 25 to hand over both him and Marina Yuryevna, who was with him, and her son. The prisoners were sent to Astrakhan to Voivode Odoevsky, who immediately sent them under strong escort to Kazan, and from there to Moscow. “In Astrakhan,” he wrote to the Tsar, “we did not dare to keep them for the sake of unrest and instability.”
In Moscow, Zarutsky was impaled, Marina was imprisoned, and three-year-old Ivan was strangled (hanged near the Serpukhov Gate). Contemporaries claimed that the noose did not tighten around the boy’s neck, and he died from the cold only a few hours later.
On December 24, 1614, it was announced to the Poles that in Moscow “Ivashka was executed for his evil deeds and Marinka’s son, and Marinka died of illness and melancholy in Moscow of her own free will.”
Subsequently, the impostor Ivan Luba (Faustin) pretended to be Ivan Dmitrievich.
