The ceremonies of the triumphal entrance are perhaps worthy of record.  A detachment of Polish horse in brilliant uniform led the procession, headed by a numerous band of trumpeters.  Then came the gorgeous coach of Dmitri, empty, drawn by six horses, richly caparisoned, and preceded, followed and flanked by dense columns of musqueteers.  Next came a procession of the clergy in their ecclesiastical robes, and with the banners of the church.  This procession was led by the bishops, who bore effigies of the Virgin Mary and of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia.  Following the clergy appeared Dmitri, mounted on a white charger, and surrounded by a splendid retinue.  He proceeded first to the church of Notre Dame, where a Te Deum was chanted, and where the new monarch received the sacrament.  He then visited the tomb of Ivan IV., and kneeling upon it, as the tomb of his father, implored God’s blessing.  Perceiving that the body of Boris Gudenow had received interment in the royal cemetery, he ordered his remains, with those of his wife and son, all three of whom Dmitri had caused to be assassinated, to be removed to a common churchyard without the city.

Either to silence those who might doubt his legitimacy or being truly the son of Ivan IV., he sent two of the nobles, with a brilliant retinue, to the convent, more than six hundred miles from Moscow, to which Boris had banished the widow of Ivan.  They were to conduct the queen dowager to the capital.  As she approached the city, Dmitri went out to receive her, accompanied by a great number of his nobles.  As soon as he perceived her coach, he alighted, went on foot to meet his alleged mother, and threw himself into her arms with every demonstration of joy and affection, which embraces she returned with equal tenderness.  Then, with his head uncovered, and walking by the side of her carriage, he conducted her to the city and to the Kremlin.  He ever after treated her with the deference due to a mother, and received from her corresponding proofs of confidence and affection.

But Dmitri was thoroughly a bad man, and every day became more unpopular.  He debauched the young sister of Feodor, and then shut her up in a convent.  He banished seventy noble families who were accused of being the friends of Boris, and gave their estates and dignities to his Polish partisans.  A party was soon organized against him, who busily circulated reports that he was an impostor, and a conspiracy was formed to take his life.  Perplexities and perils now gathered rapidly around his throne.  He surrounded himself with Polish guards, and thus increased the exasperation of his subjects.