Ivan, and using the fact that Marina was a widow of two Tsars, he proclaimed four-month-old Ivan "Ivan Dmitriyevich" (literally, Ivan, son of Dmitry). Patriarch Hermogenes, however, called Ivan "little сriminal". Zarutsky was thinking he would have established his position as de facto ruler of the Tsardom of Russia for a long time. He was, however, dethroned, and he and Marina had to flee to Astrakhan. Death When Tsar Michael I of Russia was elected, the citizens of Astrakhan wanted the pretender and his family to leave the town. In 1614 an uprising of townspeople was aimed solely at capturing the family. They fled into the steppes to escape. A month later, in May 1614, after failing to gather support for a Cossack uprising, they were captured by the Cossacks near the Yaik River and handed over to the government. Marina was imprisoned in the Kolomna Kremlin tower and Ivan and Zarutsky were brought to Moscow. Zarutsky was impaled. Three-year-old Ivan was publicly hanged on in Moscow, near the Serpukhov Gate. According to one account, he was too light for the drop to break his neck and died slowly of strangulation. Just five months after the deaths of her son and husband, Marina died in prison on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1614. References Bibliography See also 1611 births 1614 deaths People from Kaluga Russian children Russian people of Polish descent Executed Russian people Executed children 17th-century Russian people People executed by the Russian Empire by hanging Executed people from Kaluga Oblast 17th-century executions by Russia Pretenders to the Russian throne