No enemies remained to Russia but the Poles.This princess was married to the tzar by proxy, in Cracow, and in January, stephanie wood penthouse 1606, with a numerous retinue set out on her journey to Moscow.The tzarina was met, at some distance from Moscow, by the royal guard, and escorted to the city, where she was received with ringing of bells, shoutings, discharge of cannons and all the ordinary and extraordinary demonstrations of popular joy.Sorrow stephanie wood penthouse of His Mother.The claims of Griska were brought up before the Polish diet and carefully examined.But suddenly affairs assumed a new aspect, so strange that a writer of fiction would hardly stephanie wood penthouse have ventured to imagine it.When the king was lying upon this dying bed, Boris Gudenow, who, it will be recollected, was the father of the wife of Feodor, succeeded in obtaining from him a sort of bequest of the throne, and immediately upon the death of the king, he assumed the state of royalty as a duty enjoined upon him by this bequest.He accordingly invited Gustavus to stephanie wood penthouse Moscow, making him pompous promises.A hundred thousand of the wretched people of Moscow perished beneath the Polish cimeters.He surrounded himself with Polish guards, and thus increased the exasperation of stephanie wood penthouse his subjects.Ten thousand armed Poles were sent to Moscow to be in readiness to receive the newly elected monarch upon his arrival.Death stephanie wood penthouse of Michael and Accession of Alexis.