Vasili IV Ivanovich Shuisky was Tsar of all Russia from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of False Dmitri I. His rule coincided with the Time of Troubles. He was the only member of House of Shuisky to be
1887 copy of a 1672 miniature of Vasili IV
Vasili Shuisky at the Warsaw Sejm
Vasili Shuisky with his brothers at the Warsaw Sejm on 29 October 1611 engraved by Tomasz Makowski after lost picture of Tommaso Dolabella
Vasili IV paying homage to Sigismund III of Poland in Warsaw, by Jan Matejko
The House of Shuysky was a Russian family of boyars and tsars, a cadet branch of the Rurikids.
Vasili IV of Russia
…was Tsar of all Russia from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of False Dmitri I. His rule coincided with the Time of Troubles. He was the only member of House of Shuisky to become tsar and the last member of the Rurikid dynasty (Yurievichi branch) to rule as tsar. He was a son of Ivan Andreyevich Shuisky. Born Prince…
A 17th-century parsuna of Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky