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The House of Shuysky was a Russian family of boyars and tsars, a cadet branch of the Rurikids.
Tsar Vasili IV.
A 17th-century parsuna of Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
Ivan III of Russia
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Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blind father Vasily II b
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…court. Among them, Vasiliy the Pale, son of Vasiliy, and Vasiliy the Mute, grandson of Fedor, stood out in particular. Vasily the Pale was dispatched by Ivan III to govern Pskov and then Nizhny Novgorod (1478–80). The following year, he devastated Livonia and was sent as a governor to Novgorod. In 1487, he was…
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik, 1672
Ivan's destruction of the Novgorod veche, painting by Klavdy Lebedev (1889)
Variant of the Theotokos of Bogolyubovo showing Metropolitan Jonah, Vasily II and Ivan III leading the classes of society, early 16th century
Depiction of Palm Sunday procession with Ivan III and his family, including his son Vasili and grandson Dmitry, on a shroud belonging to Elena Voloshanka, c. 1498.