person
Grigory Otrepyov
Grisha Otrepyov
also: Grischa Otrepjow, Grishka Otrepyev, the False Dmitri, Pseudo-Demetrius I
The runaway Russian monk who, claiming to be the murdered Tsarevich Dmitri, took the throne in 1605 and was killed in 1606; the subject of the first tale in Malte's little green book and of his meditation on the imposed self.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §360 Grisha Otrepyov
Grigory (Grishka) Otrepyev, the runaway Russian monk who, posing as the murdered Tsarevich Dmitri, briefly seized the throne in 1605 and was killed in 1606; the green book's first tale tells his end.