The Tsar Who was Killed 4 Times | The Lives & Times of Dmitri Ivanovich 

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Plot twist : Rasputin was Dmitri the whole time. He just got tired of being a tsar and wanted to be a monk for a while.

Dmitri Ivanovich: **dies** Also Dmitri: _"Oh No! ... Anyway."_

I love to imagine how Russia probably just had a string of those people we have in every asilium thinking they are Santa just casually coming out of the woods saying how "yes, I am the Tsar!"

I guess the whole "Princess Anastasia survived the firing squad" thing from the 80's and 90's has precidence.

"Oh my god they killed Dimitri!" "You bastards!!"

I had to stop to breathe when Queen Elizabeth was revealed as the lich master

Oh my it's fun being first in a history video - it will make history!

Alright let's get the list on what Russia has: - surviving gas attack without mask - some weird magic guy who survived poisons - a tsar who keeps returning after his death

I like to imagine after the second Dmitri people just started grabbing people who looked like him in a Life of Brian kind of scenario

"Where you killed? Dmitri Ivanovich: "Sadly yes, but I lived!" x4

The people: "HE'S DMITRI" Unlucky person: "Please i'm telling you i'm not Dmitri" The people: "YOU'RE DMITRI" Unlucky person: "FINE I AM DMITRI NOW FUCK OFF!"

"Kalinka" playing and speeding up every time what "ACTUALLY" happened was described was an amazing touch.

I look forward to seeing “I am a Catholic. I very devout Catholic. God, I love that Pope” in a Jack Rackam Out of Context video.

Someone: *False Dmitri* Others: *Pseudo-Demetrius* Me, as an intelectual: **Лжедмитрий**

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson young men

Someone: *dies* Dimitri, Rasputin, 100 Slavs to angry to die: weak

I heard about these events as "the Dimitriads" in a college course on History of Russia, thanks for making this way funnier than what the professor taught the class.

Germany, France: "Russia's impossible to invade" Poland: "KURWA! HOLD MY VODKA!"

I like to think that the last 3 times that they "killed" Dmitri, it was a case of mistaken identity as in they stabed a guy who they thought was him and the real Dmitri layed low until he made his big reappearance back shocking everyone. Or everyone who "killed" him stab or slashed him, saw blood and assumed he died when he actually just passed out from being cut. Or he just perfected Rasputin's elixir of immortality and just got bored of dyeing and didn't bother coming back a fifth time.

Hes no tsar, hes a sith emperror

All Rusians: "No *We* thought you were.....dead." Dmitri Ivanovich: "My death was greatly exaggerated."

Nero did something similar, he looked quite well for a man who had stabbed himself in the throat.

Correction: King of PLC never wanted his son to become the tsar. He stated this publicly in a latter to the polish nobility, he merely wanted some lands and publicly disapproved of his son becoming tsar both out of fear that he'll be killed like many others and becouse nobility was distrustfull of him after he tried to sell throne of poland-lithuania to some habsburg prince and was discovered. He used the letter to sort of point out and say: "HA i could use my son to take over the funny noble democracy that we have here if he was the Tsar! Look how good of a king i am, respecting the law and not trying to install a absolute monarchy!". (source: "Historia Władysława, królewicza polskiego i szwedzkiego pages 156-158). The nobility or the magnates was the prime driving force behind unifying russia and plc into some sort of a triple monarchy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian%E2%80%93Muscovite_Commonwealth and the crown itself was offered by the boyars to king's son as well. Otherwise great video!

Dude he didn't die, he's a legendary lord, he just gets wounded for a few rounds.

I have something to admit...I'm actually Dmitri Ivanovich, the rightful heir to the russian throne

Rasputin “I was killed three times!” Dimitri “ok and?”

Dude, you can't just repost an excerpt from a History channel documentary in your prologue.

This is just that one scene from Dr. Strange. “Russia, I’ve come to bargain”.

Fun fact: the False Dmitry is also known by the incredibly cool name Pseudo-Demetrius

"Dmitri!? I thought you died?" *"I was dead a long time ago."*

Russia: There Dimitri is finally dead. Dimitri: privyet.

Russia had "Among Us" in 1600s. And "Among Us 2" in 1760/70s.

Well that ended anti-climactically. It's annoying when stories in history end halfway throu-

"Oh my god, they killed Dimitri!" "You bastards!"

In England: "Who is your favourite king?" "Which one?" "The 5th." In Russia: "Who is your favourite Tsar?" "Dmitri" "Which one?" "The 1st the 2nd"

I'm here because I love opera and this guy is featured in Boris Godunov (the first impostor). The kid version also shows up as a ghost in a lot of productions to haunt Boris who is steadily going mad with guilt. Dmitri then hits it up with Polish princess Marina, who is just as ambitious as he is. Vasily is also present as a slimy little bastard trying to make things worse for Boris.

Even Rasputin would say this is a little extreme.

10:14 when he said "ohhhh no not you again" that made laugh out loud

Dmitri: With the help of Polish Nobility gets the throne of Russia Russians: Kill dmitri and fire his ashes out of cannon Dmitri: I'll fuckin' do it again!

I've always loved the story of the false Dmitris. Absolutely beautiful.

For those wondering what happened with the whole succession crisis, the Smuta: the Poles successfully occupied Moscow and the Polish king's son Vladislaw got to be Tsar for a year or two, before a Russian militia led by Knyaz Dmitry Pozharskiy and a Butcher named Kuzma Minin took Moscow back, after which a nephew of Ivan the Terrible's wife Anastasia Romanovna (patronym), Feodor Romanov (surname) got his son Michael to be elected the new Tsar of Russia, and the first Romanov Tsar of Russia at that, while Feodor got himself a nice and powerful position of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, changing his name to Filaret and being the true ruler of Russia for a couple of years through his son

Me a Pole: ah yes my favourite part of Russian history

What's incredible is that not only did Poland occupy Moscow during this crisis, so did Sweden-Finland with a mostly Finnish army. A weird time

Oh, this is the greatest topic yet.

Someone needs to make a HoI4 mod were some dude claims to be Dmitri and BTFOs Stalin or something

Now we need a video about Pseudo-Alexios who basically tried to do the same thing but in the Byzantine empire

I wonder if the 2nd and 3rd Dimitri really were the same guy, seeing as how his wife identified him as such.

Dimitri's week: Sunday: Die Monday: Reappear after a while Tuesday: Become the Tsar Wednesday: Die Thursday: Disappear for a while Friday: Reappear after a while Saturday: Become the Tsar

The first death being faked is more believable because of the seizure theory. If Dimitri actually suffered seizures then faking his death to hide him away would make sense. It could also be why the church never recognized his mothers marriage, she gave birth to a incapable heir.

3:10 Tsarevich Dmitry could play not just with a knife, but in the medieval analogue of the children's game of "nojichki"("knives"). This game has many varieties, but all involve throwing a knife at a target. When I was a child (1980s) the target was made on the ground under the feet of the players, sometimes there were several targets. And the kids threw knives at targets. One day my knife accidentally ricocheted into my leg. Fortunately, the knife was short and blunt, and the wound was not deep. My wound was anointed with "zelyonka" (magic soviet medical liquid green) and I didn’t even have to put any stitches. But if the prince played with a "podsaidashny noj" or “sideknife” (this is a thin and sharp knife with a blade more than 40 centimeters for piercing chain mail), he could easily inflict a mortal wound on himself. Don't let your children play with long and sharp pieces of iron, and your dynasty will not be interrupted! 😉 Царевич Дмитрий мог играть не просто с ножом, а в средневековый аналог детской игры в "ножички". Это игра имеет много разновидностей, но все связаны с метанием ножа в мишень. Когда я был ребенком (1980е годы) мишень делалась на земле под ногами игроков, иногда мишеней было несколько. И детишки бросали нож в мишени. Однажды мой нож случайно рикошетировал мне в ногу. К счастью, нож был короткий и тупой, а рана получилась не глубокой. Мою рану помазали "зелёнкой" и даже швов не пришлось накладывать. Но если царевич играл "подсайдашным ножом" (это тонкий и острый нож с клинком больше 40 сантиметров для пробивания кольчуги) он вполне мог случайно нанести себе смертельную рану. Не давайте вашим детям играть с длинными и острыми железками, и ваша династия не прервется! 😉

As ancient aliens always says “iS IT pOsSiBlE”

This would be a great Death of Stalin type farcical movie

"Glory oh glory, Dimitri LIVES!" oh wrong name, I meant alexei

I'm not saying Vladimir Putin is also Dmitri...but have you ever noticed how we've never seen Dmitri and Putin in the same room together at the same time?

My guy just keep on respawning like a boss.

just like the fake Dmitriys, there were many fake Anastasias

Jack, as a Russian, I love, love, love you for covering the Smuta... I mean, totally not the Smuta, but only Dmitri I, of course

So this is how Putin plans to go beyond his life time powers

2:37 "Not a bastard, exactly. Just a half-bastard." A... half-stard, perhaps?

The Russian time of troubles is my favorite subject, an interesting one for sure

"You technically can't prove that didn't happen." Then has the flying teapot in the background. Good lord that's great.

“Your supposed to be dead!” “My death… was greatly exaggerated.”

As if you thought Russian history wasn’t crazy enough...

I remember learning this story in my Russian imperial history class and yeah it was this level of insane

I have an announcement. I am actually Dmitry, the rightful Tsar of Russia. Yes, I survived all that time living somewhere in Siberian Taiga. Obey me.

Dude no way, I have been spending the past few weeks doing research on the false Dmitri's, AND YOU MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THEM, GODDAMN, thanks jack

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The HRE pulled the same shenanigans with Frederick II. There was even a rumour about his possession of a magical ring that gave him invisibility.

7:00 His ashes? My prof said it was his whole body, stuffed in a cannon, and then fired in the direction of the PLC.

I think Dmitri was a Gallifreyan Time Lord, and he simply regenerated every so often until he ran out of regenerations.

Got the notification right when I left my last class for the day, pretty lucky stuff.

Or.. or.. He was a vampire from Clan Tzimisce all along! Who got bored of the game.. cultivated the Romanovs and stepped back onto the stage as Rasputin later! *Dramatic Music!* This will definitely not be a major or minor story hook for the next time I run Vampire the Masquerade.. nope

Jeff Bezzos Elen and Bush as the Illuminati is just pure gold!!

Will the real Dimitri please stand up

What if you wanted to assassinate the heir to the Russian throne but God said: "KALINKA KALINKA KALINKA MOYA"

Also, before official Polish-Russian war eastern magnates did private expeditions to put Dimitri on the throne. Obviously every one failed but Big D always managed to escape. Those expeditions finally made Russia fight back and that's when magnates managed to get Polish kings backing

This mans gave me perfect material to write my first SCP. Wish me luck boys. 💪😎✌️

"It appears reports of my *survival* have been *greatly* exaggerated..."

Macho Man Randy Savage. He trains people so hard they can shoot lasers from their eyes after completing a one month training session.

Great video as always, love it when you cover Russian history, keep it up! But I have to say Pushkin actually popularised the whole 'Goduov got Dmitri killed' narrative with his opera and it is actually quite plausible that he had a fit and stabbed himself with a knife. I mean the whole thing took place way before Feodor died and Godunov had no way of knowing that he wouldn't produce an heir of his own and die childless. Besides Vasilii Shuiskyi (who subsequenty became the tsar for a bit) was leading the whole investigation and had no gain from covering up Godunov's hand in this murder since he ended up framing him later anyway. It's all very messy just like the rest of Russian history but I'm glad you're willing to go into this to give us the best content

Oh my God, you've killed Dimitri...

Russians: I thought you were dead; Dimitri Ivanovich: It seems reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Ok. Jack. I love yout artstyle. But whenever you use the make-picture-look-like-chalk-drawing program it throws me into the uncanny valley. All the dark spots turn white and all the bright spots turn blackboard-gray. Try inverting the colours before running it through the chalk-drawing function maybe?

"They call him the plummer." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How could I have forgotten the Saga of Pseduo-Dmitrius when thinking of the videos of the kids of the subjects of prior videos?

This video has been Turtle Approved

alternative theory... THIS IS CLEARLY THE WORK OF A STAND USER! (now what to name his stand... *hears the folk music in the video*) RUSHING TROIKA!

Broke: Napoleon’s Grande Armée Woke: Poland-Lithuania’s Winged Hussars

ah, if I could gain one coin every time a Russian was "killed" and magically revived

"during the time of troubles" yeah that's a bad name, with Russian history that don't narrow much down

And as we all know, Ivanovich came back and went by a different name, Alexi Romanov Tick tock, tick tock

The real Dimitri watching everything go down: “can everyone *please* stop impersonating me?!”

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson Young Man!"

In 1595 Mehmed III succeeded his father to become Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In order to ensure a safe succession he had all of his brothers suffocated.... all EIGHTEEN of them. None survived.... or so people thought! During the reign of Achmed I (1603-18) a callow man stepped forward claiming to be 'Yahya', one of Mehmed's brothers. Claiming that his mother had smuggled him out of the Tokapi Palace, from where he had been taken to Montenegro. There he had converted to Orthodox Christianity at the age of eight, and been rechristened Alexander. Claiming now to be a Count, 'Yahya'/Alexander schlepped between European capitals, retelling his story to whichever sovereign was willing to waste an afternoon listening, and would beg for soldiers and money so he could reclaim "his" throne, and return Constantinople to Christendom. Unfortunately he lived only one life without subsequent resurrections, and the one time he had his requests fulfilled (by the Russians, ironically) he failed magnificently in his invasion attempt. And he died years later while supporting a Montenegrin rebellion, end of story. And Dmitri became the famous one with his unbeatable schtick.

Remain calm; the Regent endure; Dmitri Lives; the Tsardom of Russia will endure; there is much to be done.

The Rurikovich dynasty did not stop with the death of Fyodor Ivanovich, the Kalitichi dynasty, a sub-branch of the Rurikovichs, ceased. The same Vasily Shuisky was a Rurikovich. False Dmitry I went to Moscow not with the Polish army, but with Cossacks and peasants from the southern territories. The Poles made up only a small part of the otoyad. In fact, False Dmitry I was loved by everyone, except for Muscovites, who saw all his amazing actions. In addition, False Dmitry I never declared himself a Catholic in Moscow and was considered by the locals to be simply an inconsistent Orthodox. False Dmitry II went to Moscow with a larger share of the Polish troops. Otherwise, everything is more or less correct, except that it would be possible to tell about other impostors, and about the son of False Dmitry II Ivan the Little Raven, and about Marina Mnishek, and about Tsarevich Peter. Of course, the theme of the Smuta is not disclosed, but the purpose of this video was not to reveal the problems of the Smuta.

Reincarnation on steroids.

This episode was hilarious with all the Dimitri conspiracies. Good stuff!

8:00 Immortal huh