One of his fixed determinations was, as he declared, to shed no Christian blood, and this was so unlike the habits of a real czar that the people marveled. In the meantime his alleged mother, the late Czarina Mary, was still living as a nun in a convent where she had been sent by Boris, and when the young man had been in power for a month the return of this royal nun was arranged. Dimitri went out to meet her, and in the royal tent they spent some time alone.
Whether the lady really knew that the young man was an impostor or not will probably never be settled, although it is believed that she must have been aware of the murder of her son, and indeed must have seen his dead body. At any rate, Dimitri and Mary appeared presently before the people, where the Czarina publicly embraced and acknowledged the impostor as her son.
The young Czar ostentatiously placed his alleged mother in a carriage and walked beside it bareheaded toward Moscow. She was assigned apartments at the Kremlin, and in every way treated in a manner becoming her dignity.
The young Czar married the popular and beautiful daughter of the Palatine of Sendomir, whom he had met while traveling in Poland where he had become betrothed to her. The wedding occurred on the 18th of May, 1606, being celebrated with great pomp at Moscow.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
