Events
Interregnum and the Seven Boyars
Several centres of power
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- 1610–1613
After Vasily Shuisky's overthrow, a boyar government known as the Seven Boyars operated in Moscow. It agreed to the election of Prince Władysław on certain conditions, but he neither arrived nor was crowned tsar. Authority in the country remained fragmented until Michael Romanov's election.
- Moscow
- The Seven Boyars; then an occupying garrison until 1612
- Władysław
- An elected claimant, not a monarch who actually ruled in Moscow