As a child, Władysław was even chosen as Tsar by the council of aristocracy, though he was prevented by his father from formally taking the throne. During this period, foreign powers deeply involved themselves in Russian politics, under the leadership of the Vasa monarchs of Sweden and Poland-Lithuania, including Sigismund III Vasa and his son Władysław. A distant Rurikid cousin, Vasily Shuysky, also took power for a time.
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A series of impostors, known as the False Dmitrys, each claimed to be Feodor I's long deceased younger brother however, only the first impostor ever took the capital and sat on the throne. Son of Boris Godunov and Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskayaĭevastated by famine, rule under Boris descended into anarchy. According to Article 59 of the 1906 Russian Constitution, the Russian emperor held several dozen titles, each one representing a region which the monarch governed.
Some of the earliest titles include kniaz and velikiy kniaz, which mean "prince" and "grand prince" respectively but are often rendered as "duke" and "grand duke" in Western literature then the title of tsar, meaning "caesar", which was disputed to be the equal of either a king or emperor finally culminating in the title of emperor. The vast territory known today as Russia covers an area that has been ruled by various polities, including Kievan Rus', the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, and the sovereigns of these many nations and throughout their histories have used likewise as wide a range of titles in their positions as chief magistrates of a country. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid 9th century ( c. 862) and ends with emperor Nicholas II who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. It includes the princes of medieval Rus′ state (both centralised, known as Kievan Rus′ and feudal, when the political center moved northeast to Vladimir and finally to Moscow), tsars, and emperors of Russia. This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia.