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Updated: May 12, 2025
Himself an elected King of Poland, Sigismund may have seen in the ambitious son of Stephen Bathory one who might perhaps supplant him on the Polish throne. To divert his ambition into another channel he had fathered if he had not invented this fiction that the pretender was the dead Demetrius.
His name is Grishka Otrepiev; it is the name by which he always has been known, and he is an unfrocked monk, all as I said, and the son of my brother's wife." "Then... then..." Boris was bewildered. Suddenly he understood. "And his father?" "Was Stephen Bathory, King of Poland. Grishka Otrepiev is King Stephen's natural son." Boris seemed to fight for breath for a moment.
He could not know of how little account to Boris was the deception he had practiced in comparison with the truth he had now revealed, a truth that shed a fearful, dazzling light upon the dark mystery of the false Demetrius. The problem that so long had plagued the Tsar was solved at last. This pretended Demetrius, this unfrocked monk, was a natural son of Stephen Bathory, and a Roman Catholic.
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