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    Posted: 10-Dec-2010 at 09:42
October 29 1611 AD wasnt a good day in Russian history. Tsar Vasili IV was giving homage and paying tribute to king Sigismundus III king of Poland and Sweden who also wanted to be tsar of Russia. In the presence of Polish-Lithuanian parliament the tsar of Russia and his brothers felt on knees and gave russian crown to Polish king.

Vasili IV was taken prisoner by Polish commander Jan Zolkiewski and was sent to Warsaw. Imprisoned in Poland died one year later. King Sigismundus loved collecting important prisoners in his dungeons. Not much earlier he had archduke Maximillian von Habsburg of Austria.

Once during the dinner with Turkish emissary, the Turk said that is really great king who has such prisoners. First Habsburg and next - tsar of Russia. He also asked the king to bring the Tsar. Soon Vasili IV had to join the dinner and eat together with Polish king and Ottoman diplomat. The Turk was watching the Tsar and finally said to him: lets raise the cups and drink for the glory of such great king. Vasili answered: "dont be astonished, after Sigismundus will sit on the throne of Russia, soon your sultan will join me in my prison". However Sigismundus III did much to achieve it, he has never become the tsar, Poland soon engaged for 50 years long wars against Sweden. Sigismundus lost swedish throne and in the end of his reign he not only didnt have Sweden but even didnt have Russia, which in 1611 he belived that he has already conquered.

After the death of Vasili, king of Poland build in Warsaw great mausoleum of the tsar. All the Russian emissaries to king, first had to go to mausoleum and watch it before were allowed to see the king. In this way Sigismundus was demonstrating his might and glory. In 1634 tsar Mikhail Romanov sent to Warsaw prince Lvov and prince Projestiew with the task to buy the corpse of Vasili for 10.000 rubles in gold. Polish senate was going to reject the offer but finally King of Poland Vladislav IV answered that the dead corpse of monarch is not somthing that can be traded for money and let Russians to take the body of their tsar back to Russia. But the monumental building of mausoleum was still there and was angering all the Russian tsars and Russian people who had to watch it. In 1647 Russian tsar demanded from king Vladislav IV to destroy mausoleum as it was in his opinion an insult to all Russians and especially to tsar himself but the king refused and gave Russians only the table with inscriptions which were describing who was burried there and how he was defeated by Polish armies. In 1678 Russians demanded from Poland 2 pictures that were in Royal castle which were showing Tsar Vasili on the knees, kneeling in front of Polish king wh was sitting on his throne, but all their demands were rejected. Finally in the 18th century the pictures were given as the gesture of friendship by king Augustus II of Poland and Saxony who was looking for alliance with Russia, to tsar Peter the Great. Today mausoleum no longer exists and is as forgotten as tsar Vasili IV. The story about it was also almost forgotten, the pictures given to Peter the Great were destroyed on his order, but over a century later somone attempted to copy them:
 
 


 


Edited by Mosquito - 10-Dec-2010 at 12:32
"I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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