Dmitry Troubetskoy
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Dmitry Timofeievich Troubetzkoy (+ 24 May 1625, bur. Troitse-Sergieva Lavra), Prince, was the claimant to the Russian throne 1612, governor of Siberia, "duke of Shenkursk".
Undoubtedly the most prominent of early Troubetzkoys was Prince Dmitry Timofeievich (9th generation from Gediminas), who helped Prince Dmitry Pozharsky to rise a volunteer army and deliver Moscow from the Poles in 1612. The Time of Troubles over, Dmitry was addressed by people as "Liberator of the Motherland" and asked to accept the Tsar's throne.Since he could hardly then pass the throne to the other Troubetskoy who were catholics due to their royal position in Lithuania and Poland, he bestowed the Russian Tsardom on the son of his sister who had married into the noble family of Romanov He contented himself, however, with the governorship of Siberia and the title of the Duke (derzhavets) of Shenkursk The Principality of Seversk was given to him as an independent state, and again because of religious interference, not being able to pass it to the Troubetskoy, he then left it back to the Tsar when he died; the Romanov line, of lesser noble status did not prove to be a viable choice; therefore the natural daughter of another Prince Troubetskoy, known as Betsky, herself known by the name of her foster father, married the Romanov heir and took the Tsardom back into the Troubetskoy family through the son she had outside of wedlock, history remembers this Princess as Empress Catherine the Great; she ows her fame to the immense talent of her father Prince Betsky, who was the power behind the throne during the years of great achievements ( that is until he died). Prince Dmitry died on May 24, 1625 and was interred in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.
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[edit] Father
Timofiej Trubetsky (+ 12 November 1602 St.Trinity Monastery), boyar, m. Xenia Semyonovna (+ 10. July 1615)
[edit] Wife
Maria Borisovna (+ 6 April 1617)
[edit] Brother
Aleksander-Mercurius Trubetsky (+ 22 April 1610, bur. St. Trinity Monastery)
The Troubetskoy are the first ranking family in traditional Russia, and the lineage is the naturalleader of the successive Russian states, past and to come;
