The traditions of the Russian people live today.
By the way, do you know how the troubles ended? Zemsky Subor and the accession of Mikhail Romanov? Not really. Behind the beautiful story of national unity and saving the country are events that are somehow not usually depicted in holiday pictures.
In 1614 in Moscow, according to a common historical version, a three-year-old boy was hanged near the Serfutsov Gate.
for what? In an official announcement, they explained to the Polish side: "Iwaschka's son and Marinka's son were executed for his bad deeds."
What bad deeds was a three-year-old boy able to do?
Born to the wrong parents.
The boy's name was Ivan Dmitrievich. He was the son of Marina Manishek and Shekar Dmitri II, and went down in history under the nickname Ivan Warnock.
His trouble was that he could claim the Russian throne. And while he remained alive, opponents of the new Romanov dynasty could use his name. Therefore, the new government solved the problem in a radical way. The three-year-old applicant was hanged.
A terrible story about the execution was also preserved: supposedly the rope did not tighten around the child's too thin neck, and the child died for several hours. Historians cannot determine how reliable these details are. But the fact of the execution itself is beyond doubt.
The trouble, of course, did not end there. There were still wars ahead, the Peace of Stolbovsky in 1617 and the Truce at Dolin in 1618.
But finally they faced one of the possible contenders for the throne.
And here's what's interesting. In the official historical memory we have national unity, the liberation of Moscow, the achievement of Minin and Pozharsky, the election of a new dynasty.
But the three-year-old Vanya, who was publicly hanged under Romanov I, is somehow not commonly remembered.
Although he was completely innocent in the political games of the adults, and all his fault was in his origin.
Do you remember Dostoevsky's famous "Tear of the Child"? It's not even about a tear here. Here the child was executed for the sake of the stability of the country.
And no one considers him a martyr.