False Dmitriy (Russian: Лжедмитрий, Lžedmitrij) is a term that refers to the pretenders to the Russian throne during the Time of Troubles who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, after the real Dmitriy's death at the age of eight. These impostors claimed to have miraculously escaped the assassination attempt that appeared to have claimed Dmitriy's life. There were several people who claimed to be Dimitriy; the most prominent were the following three:
Before and after the election of Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev as President of the Russian Federation in March 2008, some Russian political commentators began to sarcastically apply the term "False Dmitriy" to Medvedev, implying that this "succession" too was illegitimate.
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