Cathedral of the Archangel

This guide to the Cathedral of the Archangel in the Moscow Kremlin opens in Uglich in May 1591, when an eight-year-old boy, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, is found dead in a courtyard with a knife in his hand. It follows fifteen years of argument over what really happened, from his mother's accusation against the regent Boris Godunov to the men who later turned up claiming to be the boy, somehow still alive, one of whom rode Polish troops to the Moscow throne itself. Along the way you'll hear the official account of the boy's death, and why his mother never believed it. Stand before the painted canopy at the center of the story.