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himself; he is the one who vociferates, who accuses, who after being chief becomes a soldier in the front ranks. He is about to lose his head, Dmitri pardons him when he's already on the scaffold, he exiles him, and with the thoughtless generousity of this amiable adventurer, he recalls him to court, and covers him with gifts and honors. What does Shuisky do—he who has come so close to the hatchet and the block? He has nothing more important to do than conspire anew, to succeed, to have himself elected Tsar, to fall and during his fall to preserve more dignity and strength of spirit than he had ever had in his entire life.
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in 1605, Shuisky went back upon his own words in order to gain favour with the pretender False Dmitriy I, who was attempting to gain the throne by impersonating the dead Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich. Shuisky recognized the pretender as the "real" Dmitry, despite having earlier determined that the boy
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and a master of palace intrigue. Despite being fully aware that Tsar Boris ordered the assassination of the child Tsarevich Dmitriy, Vasili Shuisky remains outwardly loyal, only switching his support to the Pretender when the latter appears likely to win. Pushkin later described his intention to
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I intend to return to Shuisky also. In the historical account he shows a singular mixture of audacity, flexibility, and strength of character. Lackey of Godunov, he is one of the first boyars to go over to Dmitri's side. He is the first one who conspires, and note this, he is the one who risks
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Vasili Shuisky was married twice. His first wife, Elena Mikhailovna Repnina, died prior his election to tsardom, and he had no children from that marriage. After his coronation, Vasili married Princess
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Shuisky then turned against the false Dmitry and brought about his death (in May 1606) by stating that the real Dmitry had indeed been slain and that the reigning tsar Dmitriy (False Dmitriy I) was an
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in Kremlin. As both brothers of Vasili, princes Dmitri Shuisky and Ivan Shuisky the Button, died also childless, the Shuiskys' princely house became extinct after the death of the latter in 1638.
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Only Pushkin's death in a duel at the age of 37 prevented him from composing further plays about the reigns of tsars Dmitriy and Vasili IV.
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had committed suicide. Soon afterwards the young Tsar Feodor fell victim to an assassination.
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itself he had little or no authority, and he only avoided deposition by the dominant
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It was Shuisky who, in obedience to the secret orders of tsar-to-be Boris, went to
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in 1635, Vasili's remains were finally returned to Moscow and laid to rest in the
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and eventually transported together with his two brothers to
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Russian people of the Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)
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Sketches of the Great Anarchy in the Realm of Moscow
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Vasili Ivanovich was one of the leading 317:to become tsar and the last member of the 42: 1365:Russian people who died in prison custody 61:19 May 1606 – 19 July 1610 251: 232: 221: 759:The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin 488:, notably his former adherents Princes 305:from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of 153:Ekaterina (Maria) Buynosova-Rostovskaia 14: 1370:Prisoners who died in Polish detention 1317: 861:The ancestors tsar Vasili IV of Russia 541: 518:. He died a prisoner in the castle of 503:, deposed him. He was forcibly made a 949: 593:About Vasili Shuisky, Pushkin wrote, 788: 708: 659: 647: 24: 25: 1391: 854: 387:). In the court intrigues of the 333:He was a son of Ivan Andreyevich 95:(as the head of the Seven Boyars) 776: 558: 27:Tsar of Russia from 1606 to 1610 549:Ekaterina Buynosova-Rostovskaya 415: 382: 371: 241:on 29 October 1611 engraved by 751: 702: 653: 309:. 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Index

Vasily Shuysky

Tsar of all Russia
False Dmitry I
Vladislav
Fedor Mstislavsky
Russia
Gostynin
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Ekaterina (Maria) Buynosova-Rostovskaia
House
Shuysky
Shuysky
Russian Orthodox

Sejm

Sejm
Tomasz Makowski
Tommaso Dolabella

Sigismund III of Poland
Warsaw
Jan Matejko
Russian
romanized
Tsar of all Russia
False Dmitri I
Time of Troubles
House of Shuisky

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