page_title: Marina Mniszech
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Marina Mniszech / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Башня Коломенская (Маринкина) (Москва и Московская область, Коломна, улица Лазарева, угол улица Октябрьской Революции) This is a photo of a cultural heritage object in Russia, number: 5010180002 This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLM team. Please read the guidelines before making any changes that can affect the monuments database!
context_page_description: Marina Mniszech was a Polish noblewoman, a Tsaritsa of Russia, and a prominent warlord during Russia's Time of Troubles.
  She was forcibly installed with her husband, False Dmitry I, on the Russian throne by Poland's King Sigismund III. A devout Catholic, Marina hoped to convert Russia's population to Catholicism and followed Sigismund's command to spread terror and eradicate opposition in order to create a puppet state.
  Her husband's assassination was used as justification by Poland to invade Russia in 1609.
context_section_description: Marina Mniszech appears as a character in Alexander Pushkin's blank verse drama Boris Godunov and Modest Mussorgsky's opera of the same name. Although both depict Marina's impending marriage to False Dmitriy I, the depictions of the future Tsaritsa are quite different. Pushkin wrote, "A tragedy without love attracted my imagination. But apart from love entering a great deal into the character of my adventurer, I made Dmitri fall in love with Marina to make the strange character of the latter stand out better. It is barely outlined in Karamzin. But certainly, she was an odd and pretty woman. She had only one passion and that was ambition, but with such a degree of energy, or fury, that it is difficult to imagine it. Look how having sampled royalty, drunk on a dream, she prostitutes herself to one adventurer after another -- shares now the disgusting bed of a Jew, now the tent of a Cossack, always ready to give herself to whoever can show her a faint hope of a throne which no longer exists. Look at her brave war, poverty, shame, at the same time negotiating with the King of Poland like one crowned head to another, and then end her most stormy and most extraordinary existence so miserably. I have only one scene for her, but I will return to her if God lets me live long enough. She upsets me like a violent emotion. She is horribly Polish, as Mme. Lubomirska's cousin said." In Mussorgsky's opera, however, Marina Mniszech's ambitious manipulation of her future husband is shown to be instigated by a Jesuit priest, who threatens her with hellfire unless she whores herself to the Pretender.
caption: Marinkina Tower of the Kolomna Kremlin where according to a legend Marina Mniszech was imprisoned and died
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