In Russian Chronicle, published. Lvov (St. Petersburg 1792, II, 348), the following details are reported: “That same summer (1453) Grand Duke Stefan the Bearded sent to Novgorod with a mortal potion to kill Prince Dmitry; he also came to Novgorod to the boyar Dmptrev, Ivan Kotov, who told him the great speech prince, he promised, as Davyd says: the poisonous bread of which brought flattery against me, calling the cook for advice, so Prince Dmitry, as usual, wanted a midday meal, and ordered himself to prepare one smoke for dinner; unknown to their intent, he soon fell ill and lay for twelve days and died, and was laid in the church of St. Martyr George in Novgorod.”
Six months later, suspicion arose about Mich. Glinsky in that he gave guidance. the prince “drink a potion” from which he supposedly died. Glinsky was sent to prison, in which he soon sadly ended his life (Pol. collected years. VIII, 287, P, 367). Artsybashev (Tale of Russia II, 130) admits the possibility of such an accusation; Karamzin (VIII, 9) and Soloviev (VI, 8) rightly see in this matter the result of ambitious aspirations, in which Glinsky had to collide with Telepnev-Obolensky, the ruler’s favorite. But Karamzin accepts the possibility of the news of Herberstein alone about the poisoning of the ruler Elena during Grozny’s early childhood (VIII, 29-30), and Solovyov apparently accepts this opinion (VI, 38)1). Further, they say that they first wanted to poison Tsarevich Dmitry in Uglich with poison 2); that Boris thought to escape with the poison of the Pretender by sending monks to him in Putivl with a powerful potion; but his plan was revealed (Paerle, 168). There is news that Boris, put in a critical position by the success of the Pretender, took poison, or was poisoned by others (Bussov, 42; Paerle, 173; Petrei 200; Lubensky, in Karamz. XI, 305 notes) 3). In the subscript to Boris, the swearer swore
*) The reign of Helen and the boyars during the childhood of Ivaz IV was accompanied by violence. This is how they died in prison: book. Yuri Ivanovich Dmitrovsky from hunger, book. Andrei Ivanovich Staritsky - “strldalte death”; Telepnev - from lack of poverty (Karamzin, VIII, note 15, 16; Soloviev, VI, 40).
“) “He gave him a deadly potion, sometimes in esgve, sometimes in drink. God save the righteous... Boris heard that, as if he would not harm him, and was greatly offended by this” (Nikoi, years. VIII, 16. Fletcher, chapter 5).
*) Russian legop. says: “And Boris all died from great sorrow” (Pskov. 1st, 321). Another summer. reports in more detail: “Tsar Boris, hearing this great misfortune (the approach of the Pretender), was greatly horrified and was quickly saddened... and intoxicated himself with a deadly potion and was dead” (Chronograph, 3rd ed. in Popov, 228; cf. ib. 415).
Author of Another Tale. says: “And so soon from the fierce drink he died a bitter and necessary death, as if his image was changed from breaking, and his whole body was blackened into coal and his appearance, otherwise it is impossible to say what happened from the green cruelty” (Temporary Moscow. General History XVI, 22 - 23).
“The doctors who were at the top immediately learned that he had died of ice,” says Massa, who was in Moscow at that time (136). The circumstances surrounding the death of Boris were as follows: after the death
KOPIN-SHUISKY.
not to do evil to the royal family, and the most varied types of evil are listed. Among them, many refer to the kind of encroachment on life that was then called “damage,” but such means are also mentioned here that clearly indicate the fear of poisoning (Acts Exped., II, No. 10). Hence, without a doubt, came Boris’s favor towards doctors, which attracted the attention of his contemporaries: he had several doctors who lived as luxuriously as the boyars, but, without the permission of the tsar, they had no right to treat strangers (Bussov, 19-21). Tsar Shuisky, seeing the danger from Bolotnikov, also resorted to violence. He accepted the offer of the German Fiedler to poison Bolotnikov in Kaluga. Fiedler swore that he would destroy him with the poison he promised, and he received a horse and 100 rubles from the tsar, and if successful, he was promised to give another 100 souls of peasants and 300 rubles. annual pension. But, having arrived in Kaluga, Fiedler revealed everything to Bolotnikov and gave out the poison. Subsequently, he fell into the hands of Shuisky and was exiled to Siberia (Bussov, 85-86).
In general, in troubled eras, facts of violent death become more common. Let's now look at the signs of Skopin-Shuisky's disease, as they are described in modern news. We have already mentioned them: this is severe bleeding but