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Wife and mother of usurpers, two time Tsaritsa, destruction of a dynasty - she was a Polish-born noblewoman whose life became embroiled in the Russian Time of Troubles. Her actions sent ripples across two nations, raising two kings and dooming hundreds elsewhere, until her death in 1614.
But before all that, she was Marina Mniszech.
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Wife and mother of usurpers, two time Tsaritsa, destruction of a dynasty - she was a Polish-born noblewoman whose life became embroiled in the Russian Time of Troubles. Her actions sent ripples across two nations, raising two kings and dooming hundreds elsewhere, until her death in 1614.
But before all that, she was Marina Mniszech.

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