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Princess Elena Mikhailovna Repnina-Obolenskaya, married princess Shuiskaya(until 1564/1565 (?) - 1592) - the first wife of the future Tsar Vasily Shuisky, who apparently died before his accession to the throne. The marriage was childless and presumably ended in divorce.

Regarding its origin, the biographer of the tsar V.N. Kozlyakov writes: “usually the wife of Prince Vasily Shuisky is considered the daughter of the famous boyar Prince Mikhail Petrovich Repnin, who was executed in 1564” by Ivan the Terrible (according to Kurbsky, he was stabbed to death for refusing to put on a funny mask and be a jester right in the church, at the altar). According to Kozlyakov, an additional argument for this paternity is the history of the village of Verkhovlyany in the Kolomna district - Vasily Shuisky owned half of this village (at least until 1610), and the other half was owned by Princess Marya Repnina, the widow of this boyar; that is, Vasily could receive this estate as a dowry for his wife.

Another daughter of Mikhail was called Anna, her fate is unknown.

The description in the wedding category of 1580 introduces confusion: then, around September 6, Vasily Shuisky and his wife Elena were guests at the wedding of Ivan the Terrible with the last “wife” - Maria Naga (moreover, Vasily was a friend, and Elena was a matchmaker).

There "Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuyskovo Princess Olena", former "matchmaker with the sovereign", named the daughter of Prince Mikhail Andreevich Repnin.

CHAPTER 20. OVERTHROW OF VASILY SHUISKY. TRANSITION OF POWER TO THE SEMI-BOYARS. DEATH OF FALSE DMITRY II

But, as Kozlyakov notes, Mikhail Repnin did not exist with such a patronymic: “According to the genealogical lists of Prince Andrei Vasilyevich Repnin, only one son Alexander is known, who was about the same age as Prince Vasily Shuisky.

Obviously, a mistake crept into the wedding category [regarding the patronymic "Petrovich / Andreevich"]).

Marriage[ | the code]

The date of the marriage is unknown.

Obviously - before the mentioned royal rank of 1580: Vasily was 28 years old by that time. The age of his wife can be calculated from the fact that she was hardly older than him, but most likely younger; accepting the latter, it should be remembered that she must have been born before the death of her father.

That is, she was about 16 to 28 years old (date of birth ≈ from 1552 to 1564/1565).

Why Shuisky married the orphan Repnina is not clear.

Kozlyakov believes that “a marriage with the daughter of an executed boyar looks illogical, especially when you consider that another brother, Prince Dmitry Ivanovich, was married to the daughter of Malyuta Skuratov. Perhaps some long-standing ties between the princes Shuisky and Obolensky, who served together as governors of Pskov, affected, but this is nothing more than an assumption.

The choice of the bride, however, was sometimes beneficial to Shuisky in terms of family ties. For example, when “the disgrace that befell the Shuiskys and their like-minded people for petitioning the tsar for a divorce from Irina also affected Vasily, but whether his role in the intrigue of his relatives against the tsar’s brother-in-law was insignificant, or the influence of family ties (by marrying Princess Repnina, he intermarried with the Romanov circle , then still close to Godunov, and by the wife of his brother Demetrius was in property with him), or both together were the reason that Vasily was soon returned to Moscow.

Lev and Natalya Pushkarevs suggest that this marriage could have taken place around 1584 and that it was she who caused him to return from disgrace in 1582-1583 and receive the rank of boyar, but this is not consistent with their mention at the wedding of Maria Nagoya in 1580.

Her further fate is unknown. Kozlyakov writes: “It is also unknown how long Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky was married to Princess Elena Mikhailovna Repnina-Obolenskaya and why their marriage ended”, in any case, during the reign of Boris Godunov (1598-1605) he no longer had a wife (this is known from the ban imposed on him by the Godunovs, as Karamzin wrote, “he forbade Princes Mstislavsky and Vasily Shuisky from marrying, thinking that their children, due to the ancient nobility of their family, could also compete with his son for the throne”).

Even earlier, the date of the alleged divorce is shifted by the English ambassador Giles Fletcher, who visited the Russian state in 1589, who mentioned (perhaps mistakenly) that all four brothers, the princes Shuisky, were "young people and single."

“Prince Vasily Ivanovich had no children, and this gave grounds for researchers to speculate about a divorce. The absence of references to the contributions of Vasily Shuisky by his first wife to the Novodevichy and Trinity-Sergius monasteries (where there are contributions to other princesses from the Shuisky family) is also very significant, ”Kozlyakov believes.

Modern reference books (without naming the source of information) indicate the date of Elena's death as 1592. The place of her burial is unknown.

After that, Shuisky remained a bachelor for a long time. The second time Vasily married already being a king; in 1608, Buinosova-Rostovskaya, Maria Petrovna, who bore him two daughters, became his second wife. Two years later, Shuisky was overthrown and the couple were tonsured, and the queen received the name "Elena" in monasticism - becoming the namesake of her deceased predecessor.

Notes[ | the code]

1. Russian royal and imperial house.
2. Shirokorad in his "Historical Portraits" erroneously attributes to her two daughters from Shuisky's second wife.
3. Repnin M. I. Princes Repnin in the history of the Fatherland.
4. Rudakov V.E.,. Repnin // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907.
5. Golovin N. Pedigree painting of the descendants of the Grand Duke Rurik. M., 1851
6. 1 2 3 4 5 militera.lib.ru/bio/kozlyakov_vn01/kozlyakov_vn01.html V. N. Kozlyakov.

   Vasily Shuisky. ZhZL. 2007

7. Then, in the 1620s, as A. P. Pavlov established, the village of Verkhovlyany again turned out to be in the family of the Repnin princes. See: Pavlov A.P. Sovereign court and political struggle under Boris Godunov (1584-1605). SPb., 1992. S. 206.
8. Discharge book 1475-1605
9. At the time of the murder, he was 12 years old, so a wedding with a living father is highly doubtful.
10. Russian biographical dictionary: In 25 volumes / under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov.

    1896-1918. Vasily Shuisky

11. Vasily Shuisky // Around the World
12. There is a marginal version that Shuisky was alternately married not twice, but three times - then to the sisters Maria and Ekaterina Shuisky, and one of these marriages also ended in divorce, see below.

    L. Yu. Taymasova. The secret marriage of Tsar Vasily Shuisky // New Historical Bulletin No. 31 / 2012

K. E. Makovsky. Prince M. P. Repin at a feast at Ivan the Terrible.

1880s Parsuna of Tsar Vasily Shuisky

Board of Vasily Shuisky

Shuisky entered the Kremlin as a winner. A fat little man, bald, with a sparse beard, small thieving eyes, without pleasant courtesy and flattering, which he fully corresponded to ..

Klyuchevsky

Klyuchevsky is generally a strange historical figure, and he often described things that did not really exist.

For example, there is not a single portrait of Shuisky. Where did Klyuchevsky get about "thieving eyes" - it is not clear ...

The people really did not like Shuisky. He really was an onion courtier, but after all, any ruler should be like that, otherwise he would not hold power even for a day.

Especially in the midst of the Time of Troubles.

The beginning of Shuisky's reign

The circumstances of Shuisky's accession are unusual. The fact is that when he ascended the throne, Shuisky swore allegiance to his subjects for the first time in the history of Russia. He gave the "record" and sealed it with the kiss of the cross. True, Shuisky kissing the cross is just spitting, which he will prove more than once in the future.

Nevertheless, it was a novelty - the tsar gives the crucifixion record to the people in the person of the boyars, agreeing to the limitation of his own power. Therefore, one must clearly understand that Shuisky was a boyar tsar and the kissing of the cross is an attempt to turn personal autocracy into an oligarchic version of government. What is contained in the cross-kissing record: promises to boyars, nobles, merchants and all black people against lawless disgrace and executions.

After the victory over Bolotnikov, Vasily Shuisky seemed to be able to celebrate the victory, however, as they say, trouble came from where they were not expected.

A man appeared in Russia who called himself the surviving Tsarevich Dmitry. This is how False Dmitry 2 appeared, who went to war against Moscow.

Tsar Vasily Shuisky against the Tushents

In fact, the country split into 2 parts. Approximately 100 thousand people gathered in the Tushino camp. In fact, it was a bandit settlement.

They brutally robbed the population, and robbed not only around Moscow, but went, for example, to Vologda, Yaroslavl and other cities. That is, gangs went all over the country. And not only gangs of Poles and interventionists, as it is written in many textbooks, but also Cossacks and Russian people robbed and killed their own people.

Shuisky could not do anything about it. He had no power and troops. The reign of Vasily Shuisky was very conditional. And then the cities began to take care of themselves.

They began to create their Zemsky militias (something reminiscent of modern militias). These militias were especially strong in the north and northeast of the country. I have already said more than once that once very important in terms of trade and fishing, parts of the North and North-East of Russia departed to Oprichnina. And even earlier, there was a successful lip reform. What is lip reform? People began to organize themselves at their own expense. But only the rich could do it. These people are 50 years old, within 2 generations, accustomed to self-government.

And naturally they began to organize to resist the bandits.

The rise of the Zemsky movement began. But Shuisky was not pleased. He did not like it, because in addition to the Tushinsky thief, the Zemstvo movement appears, with which power must be shared.

And then Shuisky did not find anything better than to turn to the Swedish king Charles 9.

A call to the aid of the Swedes

In February 1609, an agreement was signed in the city of Vyborg, according to which Sweden sent a detachment of 5,000 soldiers to the Russian Tsar, but these were not Swedes. They were mostly French, Germans and Scots.

It was they who were the main striking force of all mercenaries in Europe in the 17th century. When they talk about the Swedish intervention, it should be understood that only the commander was a Swede, and the army was mercenaries. There were 2 commanders in the army who were quite strong: Jacob Delagardie and Ekob Gorn.

For this help, Shuisky, in addition to paying the salary of the army, pledged to cede part of the territory to the Swedes, and, most importantly, allowed Swedish coins to circulate in Russia. These were very serious concessions. It must be understood that the reign of Vasily Shuisky as a king was very limited.

And so much so that he actually went to betray Russia.

In the spring of 1609, the united European-Russian army moved from Novgorod against the Tushints. The Russian army was commanded by a talented commander, 24-year-old Mikhail Vasilievich Skopin-Shuisky.

This was the nephew of the king, who showed himself very well in battles with the army of Bolotnikov. They defeated the Tushino people near Tver in 1609, after which the Swedes demanded an immediate payment of money. Although under the terms of the contract, they were supposed to receive money only after the end of the war. Since there was no money, Shuisky tried to increase taxes, but did not collect the required amount.

Then the Swedes abandoned Skopin-Shuisky and the army dispersed throughout Russia, starting to rob the population. Skopin-Shuisky continued on his way alone. Under these conditions, many began to think about whether Skopin-Shuisky was proclaimed to the Russian throne?

But he rejected this idea. He did not want to sit on the throne, at least in that situation.

Polish interventions in events

Since the Swedes intervened in Russian events, and at that time Poland was at war with them, Sigismund 3 took advantage of this in order to bring Polish troops into Russian territory. September 16, 1609 Sigismund laid siege to Smolensk.

He planted the city for 21 months. Smolensk stubbornly resisted and kept the siege. The enemy was able to occupy the city only after 21 months. The city fell only when the Smolensk people blew up the powder tower out of desperation, in order to do maximum harm to the enemy before surrendering.

Filaret with the clergy, Saltykov with the Tushino Duma at first did not know what to do, and then they decided to make a very clever move (at least it seemed to them so).

They sent envoys to Sigismund 3 and asked to give the son of Sigismund Prince Vladislav as king to Moscow. Pay attention Filaret and the Moscow boyars ask the Polish prince to the Russian throne.

Meanwhile, Skopin-Shuisky continues his military operations, beats the enemy and in March 1610 solemnly enters Moscow. Again Muscovites begin to say that this is exactly how the Russian Tsar should be. Naturally, Vasily Shuisky did not love his nephew, but his brother Dmitry did not love him even more. In April 1610, Skopin-Shuisky was poisoned at a baptismal feast at Prince Vorotynsky's.

Apparently, they poisoned him on the order of Dmitry, and the pharmacologist then was the son of John Dee, who in Russia acted under the name Diev.

Skopin-Shuisky died. He died for 2 weeks. Dmitry Shuisky, the tsar's brother, was appointed the new commander. On the line, Dmitry Shuisky went to fight with the Poles. Meanwhile, the Polish army under the command of Hetman Zholtkevsky was moving towards Moscow. And although Dmitry Shuisky's army was 2 times larger, he was shamefully defeated, insofar as the governor was weak.

And Zholkevsky, inspired by success, began a march on Moscow. Upon learning of this, False Dmitry 2, who was sitting in Kaluga, was very happy, and who also began to move towards Moscow.

End of reign

By the summer of 1610, Moscow is in ticks.

Election to the Kings of the book. Vasily Shuisky

False Dmitry is moving from the south with the Russian lower classes and ragamuffins, and from the west hetman Zolkiewski is moving with the Poles. And then a conspiracy was drawn up against Shuisky.

On July 17, 1610, the nobles, led by one of the Lipunov brothers Zakhar, with the active support of the townspeople, overthrew Vasily Shuisky and tonsured him a monk, and then handed him over to the Poles with brothers Dmitry and Ivan.

The reign of Vasily Shuisky was over. In captivity, the Poles Shuisky experienced the most severe humiliation. At a meeting of the Sejm, they were put on their knees and forced to publicly ask for mercy from the Polish king. Physical and moral hardships undermined the health of the Shuiskys. In October 1612 Brothers Vasily and Dmitry die.

The coming to power of Vasily Shuisky and his reign.

Elected by the boyars and townspeople.

After the death of False Dmitry, the boyar tsar Vasily Shuisky (1606-1610) came to the throne.

He gave an obligation in the form of a cross-kissing record (kissing the cross) to preserve the privileges of the boyars, not to take away their estates and not to judge the boyars without the participation of the Boyar Duma. The nobility now tried to resolve the created deep internal and external contradictions with the help of the boyar tsar.

One of Shuisky's most important affairs was the appointment of a patriarch.

Patriarch Ignatius the Greek was deprived of his rank for supporting False Dmitry I. The patriarchal throne was taken by an outstanding patriot, the 70-year-old Kazan Metropolitan Hermogenes.

In order to suppress rumors about the rescue of Tsarevich Dmitry, his remains were transferred by order of Vasily Shuisky three days after the coronation from Uglich to Moscow.

The prince was canonized as a saint.

Seeking the support of the boyars and nobles, Vasily Shuisky in March 1607 issued the Code of Peasants, which introduced a 15-year term for the search for fugitives.

Rebellion of Ivan Bolotnikov:

Reasons for the uprising:

— The arrival of the impostor.

- The desire to return everything to its place, strong royal power as a defense against the autocracy of the boyars.

Rebellion Requirements:

We learn about the demands of the rebels from the documents that came out of the government camp.

They cite the so-called "charming letters" ("sheets") that came from the army of I.I. Bolotnikov - proclamations calling on the population of cities and villages to go over to the side of the rebels. So, the Moscow Patriarch Hermogenes wrote: "... and those people stand near Moscow, in Kolomenskoye, and write their cursed sheets to Moscow, and order the boyar serfs to beat their boyars and their wives; and they promise them patrimonies and estates ... and call on their thieves to themselves and want to give them both the boyars, and the voivodeship, and the roundabout, and the deaconship ... "

Naive monarchism, belief in a "good" tsar underlay the views of the Cossacks and the peasantry on the state system.

The peasantry and the Cossacks saw the goal of the uprising in a return to the old communal order.

Participants in the uprising:

In the uprising I.I. Bolotnikov was attended by representatives of different social strata - peasants, serfs, townspeople, Cossacks, nobles and other service people.

The Cossacks played an important role at all stages of the uprising. Possessing weapons, having military experience, a strong organization, it formed the core of the army of the rebels. In addition to the oppressed sections of the population, nobles and service people also participated in the campaign against Moscow.

Supporters of a strong central government. Their opponents are supporters of the boyars. It was the Civil War.

Main events:

— I.I. Bolotnikov defeated government troops near Yelets, captured Kaluga, Tula, Serpukhov.

in October 1606

army I.I. Bolotnikova laid siege to Moscow, located near the village of Kolomenskoye.

Vasily Shuisky

Bolotnikov was driven back to Kaluga and besieged by the tsarist troops.

— I.I. Bolotnikov was blinded and then drowned in an ice hole in the city of Kargopol.

Results of the uprising:

- The defeat of Bolotnikov, his execution

- "Code of Peasants". 15-year-old detective of peasants.

Rebellion Meaning:

- howled all the discontent accumulated during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

- The uprising was one of the results of the oprichnina.

False Dmitry II:

Purpose and result of activity:

Seizure of power.

In fact, he was only a puppet in the hands of the Polish gentry. It was only a pretext for the beginning of the open intervention of Poland. After Poland switched to open actions, False Dmitry fled to Kaluga, where he was killed.

The overthrow of Vasily Shuisky. Seven Boyars.

In the summer of 1610, a revolution took place in Moscow. The nobles, led by P. Lyapunov, overthrew Vasily Shuisky from the throne and forcibly tonsured him a monk.

(Shuisky died in Polish captivity, where he was sent as a hostage along with his brothers in 1612.)

Power was seized by a group of boyars led by F.I. Mstislavsky. This government, which consisted of seven boyars, was called "seven boyarshin".

In August 1610, the Seven Boyars, despite the protests of Patriarch Hermogenes, concluded an agreement on calling Vladislav, the son of King Sigismund, to the Russian throne, and let the interventionist troops into the Kremlin.

August 27, 1610 Moscow swore allegiance to Vladislav. It was a direct betrayal of national interests. The country faced the threat of loss of independence.

Consequences of Troubles.

Economic:

Ø ruin and desolation of the country.

Ø Economic devastation and impoverishment of the people, the restoration process took three decades.

Domestic political:

Ø The weakening of the central government.

Foreign policy:

Ø complication of the international position of Russia.

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Vasily IV Ioannovich Shuisky
Years of life: 1552–1612
Years of reign: 1606-1610 (7th Tsar of Russia)

From the Shuisky dynasty, a branch of the Grand Dukes of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, descendants of Prince Andrei II Yaroslavich. Prince, boyar and governor.

Son of Prince Ivan Andreevich Shuisky.

He spent his youth under Grozny: in 1580

was a friend of the king at his last wedding, and in 1581 - 1582. stood as governor with regiments on the Oka, guarding the border.

Short biography of Vasily Shuisky

Since 1584, he headed the Judgment Chamber, being a boyar.

He is also known to historians as a great governor. Voivode of the Big Regiment on a campaign to Serpukhov in the summer of 1581, on a campaign to Novgorod in July 1582, on a campaign to Serpukhov in April 1583. Governor of Smolensk in 1585-1587

For unknown reasons Vasily Shuisky in 1586 he was in exile.

During the persecution of the Shuiskys by Godunov, from 1587 he was exiled to Galich. And in 1591, Godunov, deciding that they would not harm him, returned them to the capital.

In 1591, Shuisky conducted an investigation into the case of Tsarevich Dmitry. Under pressure from Godunov, he recognized the cause of the prince's death as an accident, suicide. From the same year, Vasily again entered the Boyar Duma and soon became the Novgorod governor. In 1598, he was the first commander of a regiment in the Mstislavsky army in the Crimean campaign to Serpukhov.

From January 1605 he was appointed governor of the regiment of the right hand in the campaign against False Dmitry.

Vasily Shuisky. Biography. Governing body. Time of Troubles

However, not much desiring Godunov's victory, he went over to the side of the impostor.

After False Dmitry I took the throne, Vasily Ivanovich announced that the conclusions of his commission regarding the death of Tsarevich Dmitry were incorrect, and the new tsar was the true son of Ivan the Terrible. But in June 1605, Vasily tried to carry out a coup against the impostor, was captured and condemned to death by False Dmitry I, but was soon pardoned and sent into exile with his brothers.

Needing boyar support, False Dmitry at the end of 1605

returned the Shuiskys to Moscow.

In 1606, Vasily organized a conspiracy against False Dmitry I, which ended in a Moscow popular uprising on May 17, 1606 and the death of the impostor.

Board of Vasily Shuisky

At the very beginning of his reign, the confrontation between the capital's nobility and the boyars intensified (the uprising led by Bolotnikov). In 1607, with the support of large cities, he managed to stop the uprising, but in the summer of that year, Polish intervention began in the Russian state.

from the army of Sigismund III and the uprising in Moscow led to the fall Tsar Vasily Shuisky. On July 17 (27), 1610, part of the boyars Vasily IV Ivanovich Shuisky was deposed from the throne and forcibly tonsured a monk.

In September 1610, he was extradited to the Polish hetman Zholkiewski, who took him and his brothers Dmitry and Ivan as prisoners to King Sigismund of Poland.

Vasily Ivanovich died in custody in the Gostyninsky castle in Poland.

In 1635, his remains were reburied in the Archangel Cathedral of the Kremlin.

He was married twice:

on Princess Elena Mikhailovna Repnina, daughter of the boyar Prince Mikhail Petrovich Repnin;
from 1608

on Princess Maria Petrovna Buynosova-Rostovskaya, daughter of Prince Peter Ivanovich Buynosov-Rostovsky, she was tonsured a nun in 1610;

• Princess Anna Vasilievna (1609 - died in infancy)
• Princess Anastasia Vasilievna (1610 - died in infancy)

Contemporaries and descendants blamed Shuisky for many sins and infractions.

He was stingy, stubborn, resorted to sorcery. But meanwhile, one cannot but admit that in the life of Vasily Ivanovich there were many moments when he showed true wisdom, courage and greatness of soul.

Vasily IV Shuisky - biography, information, personal life

Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky

Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky.

Born in 1552 - died on September 12 (22), 1612. Russian Tsar Vasily IV Ioannovich (1606-1610). The last king of the Rurik family.

Vasily Shuisky was born in 1552.

Father - Prince Ivan Andreevich Shuisky (1533-1573), Russian statesman and military leader, boyar (since 1566), governor in Smolensk (1569), son of Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Shuisky, who was killed by the kennels of Ivan IV the Terrible.

Mother - Anna Fedorovna, her origin is unknown.

Brothers: Andrei Ivanovich, Dmitry Ivanovich, Alexander Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich (Button).

The entire influential Shuisky clan was represented at court.

Since 1584, Vasily Shuisky was a boyar and head of the Moscow Court of Justice.

In the campaigns of 1574, 1576, 1577 and 1579 - a rynda with a large saidak (squire-bodyguard of the Grand Duke).

In the summer of 1581 - governor of the Big Regiment during a campaign to Serpukhov.

In July 1582 - governor of the Big Regiment on a campaign to Novgorod (under his brother Andrei).

Voivode of the regiment of the right hand on a campaign to Serpukhov in April 1583.

Governor of Smolensk in 1585-1587.

For unknown reasons, he was in a short exile in 1586.

During the persecution of the Shuiskys by Tsar Boris Godunov, from 1587 he was in exile in Galich.

In 1591, Boris Godunov, no longer seeing the danger in the Shuiskys, returned them to Moscow. Since then, the Shuiskys have generally behaved loyally.

In 1591 he conducted an investigation into the case of Tsarevich Dmitry. Being under the strict supervision of Godunov, Shuisky recognized the cause of the prince's death as suicide - an accident. From the same year, he was again introduced to the Boyar Duma. After that he was governor of Novgorod.

In 1598 - the first governor of the right-hand regiment in the army of Mstislavsky in the Crimean campaign to Serpukhov.

From January 1605 he was the commander of the regiment of the right hand in the campaign against False Dmitry I, and won the battle of Dobrynich. However, not much desiring Godunov's victory, by inaction he allowed the impostor to strengthen.

After the death of Godunov, he tried to carry out a coup, but was arrested and exiled along with his brothers.

But False Dmitry I needed boyar support, and at the end of 1605 the Shuiskys returned to Moscow.

During the armed popular revolt on May 17 (27), 1606, organized by Vasily Shuisky, False Dmitry I was killed, and on May 19 (29) a group of followers of Vasily Ivanovich “called out” Shuisky as king.

The reign of Vasily Shuisky

Vasily IV Shuisky was crowned on June 1 (11), 1606 Metropolitan Isidore of Novgorod

At the same time, he gave a cross-kissing record that limited his power. In early June, the Shuisky government declared Boris Godunov the murderer of Tsarevich Dmitry.

Shuisky tried to strengthen the army after the humiliating defeats inflicted on the tsarist army by the supporters of False Dmitry.

Under him, a new military charter appeared in Russia - the result of processing German samples. At the same time, centrifugal tendencies intensified, the most noticeable manifestation of which was the Bolotnikov uprising, which was suppressed only in October 1607.

In August 1607, Bolotnikov was replaced by a new pretender to the throne - False Dmitry II.

The tsarist troops were defeated near Bolkhov (May 1, 1608). The tsar with his government was locked up in Moscow, an alternative capital arose under its walls with its own governmental hierarchy - the Tushino camp.

By the end of 1608, Shuisky did not control many regions of the country. The Vyborg treaty of early 1609 promised territorial concessions to the Swedish crown in exchange for armed assistance to the tsarist government.

The command of the Russian-Swedish army was taken over by Prince M.V. Skopin-Shuisky. Many saw the young and energetic commander as the successor to the elderly and childless sovereign.

The overthrow and captivity of Vasily Shuisky

Despite the fact that most of the country was liberated from anti-government forces by March 1610, in September 1609, the Polish-Lithuanian king Sigismund III invaded Russia, besieging Smolensk.

Tsar Vasily Shuisky himself was not popular among the people. In addition, anti-Shui sentiment in Moscow was fueled by the unexpected death of the young commander Skopin-Shuisky.

The defeat of the troops of Dmitry Shuisky near Klushino from the army of Sigismund on June 24 (July 4), 1610 and the uprising in Moscow led to the fall of Shuisky.

July 17 (27), 1610 part of the boyars, the capital and provincial nobility Vasily IV Ioannovich was deposed from the throne and forcibly tonsured a monk, moreover, he refused to pronounce monastic vows himself. In September 1610, he was extradited - not as a monk, but in lay clothes - to the Polish hetman Zolkiewski, who took him and his brothers Dmitry and Ivan in October to Smolensk, and later to Poland.

In Warsaw, the tsar and his brothers were presented as prisoners to King Sigismund and took a solemn oath to him.

The former tsar died in custody in the Gostynin castle, 130 versts from Warsaw, and his brother Dmitry died there a few days later.

The third brother, Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky, subsequently returned to Russia.

In 1635, at the request of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, the remains of Vasily Shuisky were returned by the Poles to Russia.

Vasily was buried in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Vasily Shuisky. Time of Troubles

Personal life of Vasily Shuisky:

Was married twice.

First wife - Princess Elena Mikhailovna Repnina(mind.

1592), daughter of the famous boyar Prince Mikhail Petrovich Repnin, who was executed in 1564 by Ivan the Terrible for refusing to put on a funny mask and be a jester (he was stabbed to death right in the church, at the altar).

Why Shuisky married the orphan Repnina is not clear. According to historians, this marriage with the daughter of the executed boyar looks illogical, especially when you consider that another brother, Prince Dmitry Ivanovich, was married to the daughter of Malyuta Skuratov. The first marriage was childless, which ended in divorce.

Second wife - Princess Maria Petrovna Buynosova-Rostovskaya, nee Catherine, monastic Elena (d.

1626), daughter of Prince Peter Ivanovich Buynosov-Rostovsky.

The second marriage took place after the accession to the throne. The second marriage, to which Tsar Vasily Ivanovich did not aspire too much, took place only for reasons of dynastic expediency.

Two daughters were born in it - Anna and Anastasia.

She was buried in the Ascension Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin, after its destruction by the Bolsheviks, the remains, along with others, were transferred to the underground chamber of the southern annex of the Archangel Cathedral, where they are now.

The tomb was found during research work on the necropolis of the Ascension Monastery in the Kremlin. Researcher of the necropolis of the Ascension Monastery T.

Vasily Shuisky - the last Rurikovich

D. Panova cites an inscription on the lid of the sarcophagus: “September 7118, on the 26th day, in memory of the Holy Apostle Ivan the Theologian, the daughter of the Tsar and Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich of All Russia, Princess and Grand Duchess Anna Vasilievna of All Russia, was reposed.”

Princess Anastasia Vasilievna(1610), also died in infancy. She was buried in the Suzdal Intercession Monastery - at the place of exile of her mother.

The image of Vasily Shuisky in art and cinema:

Vasily Shuisky is one of the main characters in the tragedy of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin "Boris Godunov", which was repeatedly filmed:

1954 - Boris Godunov (film-opera) - Nikandr Khanaev as Vasily Shuisky;
1986 - Boris Godunov (dir.

Sergei Bondarchuk) - in the role of Vasily Shuisky Anatoly Romashin;
1989 - Boris Godunov (film-opera) - in the role of Vasily Shuisky Kenneth Rigel;
2011 - Boris Godunov - Leonid Gromov as Vasily Shuisky.

2018 - Godunov - Andrey Merzlikin as Vasily Shuisky.

Andrey Merzlikin as Vasily Shuisky

The personality of V.I. Shuisky

Vasily Shuisky was born in $1552$ in the family of a prince Ivan Shuisky. The Shuiskys were the Rurikovichs of the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod branch.

The rise of the prince began at the end of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Vasily's brothers were also at the court - Ivan Button, Andrei, Dmitry.

After the death of Ivan the Terrible, an imbecile became king Fedor Ivanovich. Among all the branches of the Rurikovich, the Shuiskys were the oldest, therefore they had more chances for accession. But at that time he was already actively acting in his favor. Boris Godunov. The Shuiskys were persecuted. Andrei Ivanovich and Ivan Petrovich were exiled, both were soon killed. Vasily Ivanovich at the time of the repressions was already in exile, in Galich.

In $1591 the prince died Dmitry. Then Boris Godunov returned the Shuiskys to Moscow. But Vasily Shuisky was forbidden to marry and, accordingly, continue the Shuisky family. Godunov entrusted the investigation into the circumstances of the death of Tsarevich to a commission led by Vasily Shuisky. After "Uglich case" Shuisky was introduced to the Boyar Duma.

Vasily Shuisky and False Dmitry I

In $1603$ appeared False Dmitry I. Vasily Ivanovich explained to the people that the prince died and was buried in Uglich.

At the beginning of $ 1605 $, Vasily Ivanovich became the commander of the troops moved against False Dmitry I. The result of the victory in Battle of Dobrynich in January, $1605 was deliberately not fixed: Vasily knew about the deterioration in the position of Tsar Boris.

In May, $1605, Boris Godunov was poisoned. Vasily Shuisky became the main candidate for the throne among the boyars. However, the positions of False Dmitry were stronger, the people accepted him. Therefore, after the arrival of the impostor in Moscow, Shuisky was sentenced to death, but at the last moment, False Dmitry replaced it with exile, and soon, he completely returned the prince to the court.

The fall of False Dmitry I and the accession of Vasily Shuisky

The impostor did not reign long. His admiration for Europe and, in particular, Poland, caused great irritation in Moscow. at the wedding with Marina Mnishek in June $1606$ there were a lot of Poles, they behaved extremely cheekily.

$17$ May $1606$ Vasily Shuisky entered the Kremlin with armed men, and the people were already smashing the Poles all over Moscow. The prince called for the expulsion of the impostor, who was eventually killed by an angry mob.

A couple of days later, Shuisky was elected king in the course of "shouting out" his name. He gave a cross-kissing note, promising not to do iniquity; according to the text, the interests of the boyars were guaranteed in the first place.

Board of Vasily Shuisky

Shuisky transferred the remains of Tsarevich Dmitry to Moscow. Then he replaced the patriarch, elected by False Dmitry, with Hermogen.

Vasily Shuisky had enemies who, following the supporters of False Dmitry, began to spread rumors that he had escaped. Unrest began, the largest of which was an uprising Ivan Bolotnikov.

Following the uprising Bolotnikov appeared False Dmitry II. He reached Tushino near Moscow and camped there. The troops of the "Tushino thief" plundered and ravaged the lands throughout most of European Russia. False Dmitry II was helped by the Poles, so Vasily Shuisky made an alliance with their opponent - Sweden. In response to this Sigismund III recalled troops from False Dmitry, as he personally declared war on Russia.

Soon the Tushino camp was set up by the talented nephew of Vasily Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky. After the lifting of the siege from Moscow, they even offered to make him king instead of Vasily, but he refused.

Vasily Shuisky did not like such ideas, and shortly after the feast, Mikhail fell ill and died. Poisoning finally ruined the authority of Vasily Shuisky.

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In addition, from the Poles who approached Moscow, led by the hetman Zholkiewski, there was no one to fight back. Under these conditions, the opponents of Shuisky, the nobles Lyapunovs raised Moscow to revolt. $17$ July $1610$ Vasily Shuisky had to step down from the throne. Then he was forcibly tonsured a monk.

Power has passed to "Seven Boyars". They could not repel the attack of the Poles, so they agreed to transfer the throne to the prince Vladislav.

Hetman Zolkiewski handed over Vasily Shuisky as a prisoner to King Sigismund. Vasily Shuisky was imprisoned in Gostyn castle, where he died in $1612$.

The future Russian tsar was born into a princely family in 1552 in Nizhny Novgorod. Little Vasily was not the only child in the family. He had 3 brothers: Andrei, Dmitry and Ivan.

From his youth, which passed under Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Vasily Ivanovich became interested in politics. In 1580, he became the groom's friend at the last wedding of Ivan IV. Shuisky himself had two marriages. The marriage with the daughter of the boyar Repin turned out to be childless. The second alliance with Buynosova-Rostovskaya gave Vasily Ivanovich two daughters, Anna and Anastasia. Unfortunately, both of them died in infancy.

In the period from 1581 to 1583, Shuisky, as governor, participated in campaigns against the cities of Serpukhov and Novgorod. In 1584 he became a boyar and head of the judicial chamber in Moscow.

After the death of Ivan IV in the struggle of the court nobility, Shuisky opposed. For this he fell into disgrace and from 1587 to 1591 he was in exile in Galich. Feeling no danger from Shuisky, in 1591 Tsar Boris Godunov returned him from disfavor and entrusted him with investigating the case of the mysterious death in Uglich of Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich. Fearing the sovereign, Shuisky recognized the cause of the death of the heir to the throne as an accident. In the same year, Vasily Shuisky returned to the Boyar Duma. With the appearance in Russia, Shuisky, on behalf of Godunov, convinced the people on Red Square that the real Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich rested in Uglich.

In the winter of 1605, Godunov appointed Shuisky as a regimental governor in a campaign against the impostor's troops. Due to the lack of desire for victory in this war to the current sovereign, Shuisky took the side of False Dmitry.

With the accession of False Dmitry, Shuisky recognized the conclusions of the commission on the reasons for the death of Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich as incorrect and recognized him as a real descendant of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich.

Already in the summer of 1605, Vasily Ivanovich tried to overthrow False Dmitry by a coup, but the plot was uncovered, and Vasily Ivanovich was captured and sentenced to death. However, the reigning ruler had mercy and sent Shuisky into exile along with his brothers, but returned him back six months later.

The following year, Shuisky prepared a conspiracy against False Dmitry. The crown of the conspiracy was a popular uprising, as a result of which the impostor died. Supporters of Shuisky in May 1606 named him tsar and on the first day of summer, Vasily Ivanovich, having received the blessing of the metropolitan, became the Russian tsar.

The first thing the new autocrat did was to transfer the relics of Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich to the capital. While Shuisky was in power in Russia, a new military charter was issued. With the coming to power, Shuisky had to suppress the Bolotnikov uprising, and in August 1607, the attack of False Dmitry II on the capital began. To fight the new impostor, Shuisky made an alliance with the Swedish king. The tsar's nephew Prince Skopin-Shuisky took command of the allied army. The troops under his command lifted the siege from the Trinity Lavra and solemnly entered Moscow. The commander-in-chief was glorified throughout the capital, calls were made to recognize him as king. However, Skopin-Shuisky soon died suddenly and the tsar was blamed for his death.

In order to prevent the intervention of the Swedes in the turmoil in Russia, in the fall of 1609, the Polish army besieged Smolensk. The intervention of the Commonwealth in Russia began. In June 1610, Russian troops were defeated by the army of the Polish king. Dissatisfaction with the sovereign grew, and in July Vasily Ivanovich was overthrown by the boyars and forcibly tonsured him a monk. Time has begun

Vasily IV Ivanovich Shuisky is known in Russian history as the king ruling from 1606 to 1610. The ruler came from the princely Shuisky family and was the last descendant of the Rurik dynasty on the Russian throne. In 1552, a son, Vasily, was born into the princely family of Ivan Andreevich and Anna Fedorovna Shuisky. The boy was not an only child, the future ruler grew up with his brothers - Andrei, Dmitry and Ivan. Little is known about the prince's childhood and youth.

At a young age, Vasily IV became interested in politics. Shuisky enters the Moscow Judicial Chamber, and later seeks a promotion in the service. Vasily Ivanovich was named boyar. The prince took part in military campaigns, once he was even sent into exile at the request of the Godunov family.

Beginning of the reign

The reign of Vasily Shuisky did not start easy. It is known that the political career of Vasily IV began at the time when he was on the throne. At this time, Tsarevich Dmitry, the future tsar, who allegedly escaped by a miracle, appeared. Shuisky did not like this, so the boyar began to weave intrigues against a possible future ruler. Soon Boris Godunov dies, and a man hated by Vasily IV ascends to the throne.

Basil IV keeps hatred inside himself and prepares a plan to overthrow the false king. In the meantime, he helps rule, supports the undertakings of False Dmitry. Twice the boyar tried to overthrow the ruler. For the first time, the plot was revealed, after which the future king was sentenced to death. But the gracious false sovereign took pity on Vasily and returned him to the service.

The second plot was successful. In 1606 False Dmitry I was killed. The boyars immediately elevated Vasily Shuisky to the throne. In return, the new tsar promised the Boyar Duma the transfer of part of his powers.

Domestic politics

The years of the reign of Vasily Shuisky became part of Russian history, which is called the Time of Troubles. Conspiracies were woven against the authorities, and the onslaught of European states prevented the establishment of internal relations. Despite this, Vasily IV managed to make a number of changes in the life of the Russian state.

Shuisky's domestic policy began with the introduction of methods to strengthen power. The king signs the cross-kissing record. The document significantly limited the possibilities of the prince, but such was the desire of the boyars, who chose Vasily IV as ruler. To improve the mood among the nobles, in order to win their favor, Vasily IV introduces a 10-year investigation of the peasants. But even this did not help to keep the boyars on the side of the ruling power after the arrival of False Dmitry I.

Shuisky began to strengthen the troops. The ruler paid special attention to discipline within the troops. The basic rules were specified in the military charter. Basil IV took an example from the Germans. The manual prescribed the rules of conduct for soldiers and leaders. Popular discontent gradually gained momentum, despite the attempts of the government to pacify the subjects. Unrest constantly arose in different parts of the country. Shuisky saw the only correct solution to the problem in the enslavement of the peasants.

Foreign policy

Vasily Shuisky was of aristocratic origin. Having become king, Vasily IV tried to please the boyars, who wanted to make an alliance with the Poles. The paramount task in foreign policy for Shuisky was rapprochement with the Commonwealth. But diplomatic negotiations with the Polish rulers did not bring the expected result.

The uprisings organized by I. Bolotnikov only hindered the establishment of peace with the Poles, since False Dmitry, together with disgruntled citizens, captured the citizens of the Commonwealth. Poland and Moscow were on the verge of hostilities. The Poles urged the Russian authorities to return the captured foreigners.

But the authorities in the person of Vasily Shuisky preferred to choose a different path - rapprochement with the Swedes. The Swedish ruler Charles IX put pressure on the Russian Tsar. The European sent letters in which he announced the imminent attack on the Commonwealth, urged Muscovites to join. In the second letter, the Swede announced plans to overthrow Shuisky. The organizers of the rebellions were Poles.

Events unfolded for Vasily IV in an unfavorable way. On the one hand - a possible "crusade" against the country of Charles IX, on the other - strange relations with the Poles. Shuisky tried to avoid direct answers to the questions asked by the Swedish side. He got off with general phrases, such as "there will be no violation of the peace, but he cannot confirm peace with Sweden either."

Foreign rulers continued to put pressure on the Russian Tsar. Some wanted land and the opportunity to trade in Russia, others wanted to return Mniszek and the detained Poles. As a result, Shuisky reached peace with the Commonwealth. But the king understood that the agreement could be violated at any moment.

The doubts of the Russian ruler were confirmed later, when people who opposed the alliance with Moscow came to power among the Poles. Historians believe that the Poles contributed to the incitement of internecine wars within the country, the emergence of False Dmitry II. Poland exerted pressure on the Cossacks, whom it saw as the destroyers of the government foundations in Russia.

The reign of Vasily Shuisky turned out to be restless. Mnishek and False Dmitry II opposed the current government. The Poles, meanwhile, occupied Tushino and opposed Moscow. The Russian tsar did not have the opportunity to confront the impending threat alone, so Vasily IV is moving closer to the Swedes. The Swedish king still wants to expand his influence in the Russian lands. In exchange for Sweden's cooperation, Kola, Ivangorod, Korela should withdraw. History has preserved the letters sent by Charles IX to the commissioners:

“Such an opportunity has come to take advantage of the troubles of Russia for the territorial enrichment of the Swedish crown that it is impossible to miss it; this would mean making a political oversight, from which one cannot justify oneself either before God or before people.

Intervention in such conditions became more and more real. In addition to fighting the Swedes, Vasily Shuisky had to confront the Tushinos. The king felt the need for additional military personnel, but it was possible to get help only in the Horde. The Tatars liberated Oskol and Liven for Vasily IV.

New money transfers to the Horde did the trick: the Tatars attacked False Dmitry II in the Borovsky district. Despite the regular replenishment of the Horde treasury at the expense of Moscow, Vasily Shuisky did not receive a positive result from cooperation with the Horde. The Horde decided that there was too little money from Moscow, and began to rob the common people.

The prince tried in every possible way to defend the capital and the Russian state. The reign of Shuisky did not bring visible changes in foreign policy. The Swedes tried to get Russian lands, the Horde robbed the people, the Poles, together with False Dmitry II, organized conspiracies against Vasily IV.

Overthrow

In 1609, relations with the Poles deteriorated completely. This was evidenced by the fact that the Polish-Lithuanian king Sigismund III laid siege to Smolensk. With his own forces, the Moscow tsar was able to liberate most of the Russian lands from the invaders. Despite this, Vasily Shuisky was not popular among the people, contemporaries considered him an illegal ruler.

The desire to overthrow the king grew. The death of the commander Skopin-Shuisky added confidence to the townspeople. An uprising broke out, which made it possible to remove the ruler from the throne. Basil IV was forced to pronounce monastic vows and was tonsured a monk.

Personal life

The biography of Vasily Shuisky describes two marriages. The first union did not produce heirs. The king did not have a desire to marry again, therefore, after the death of his wife, the ruler walked a bachelor for a long time. The second wife of the king was the daughter of Prince Peter Ivanovich Buynosov-Rostovsky Maria.

There was no love between husband and wife, as marriage was required to continue the dynasty. Tsar Boris insisted on the union, who did not want to transfer the throne to strangers. The marriage brought the ruler two daughters who died at a young age. The Belsky Chronicler says:

“Tsar Vasily Ivanovich of All Russia had only two daughters, and they died in infancy; tacos are called the essence of Nastasya and Anna.

Death

Shuisky after the overthrow was in the hands of the Polish hetman. The ex-tsar, along with his brothers, is brought to Smolensk, after which they are transported to the Commonwealth and presented to King Sigismund. The princes had no other choice but to take the oath to the Polish ruler.

During the imprisonment in the Gostyninsky castle, the ex-sovereign dies. A few days later, they announced the death of brother Dmitry. Only Ivan Shuisky managed to return to his native lands. Decades later, Vasily's remains were transported at the request of Mikhail Fedorovich to the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Vasily was born in 1552 in the family of Ivan Andreevich and Anna Feodorovna Shuisky. He was brought up with his brothers Andrei, Dmitry and Ivan. There is no special information about the childhood of the future ruler.

At a young age, Vasily Ivanovich became interested in politics. He joined the Moscow Judicial Chamber and achieved a promotion. Became a boyar. The prince constantly took part in military campaigns.

After his death, Vasily first spoke with other boyars against Bogdan Volsky, and then became an opponent of Boris Godunov.

In 1591, Vasily Shuisky investigated the causes of the sudden death of Tsarevich Dmitry. The investigation confirmed that he died as a result of an accident, which, according to contemporaries, played into the hands of Boris Godunov.

In 1598, after the death of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, Shuisky was one of the contenders for the Russian throne. His nobility and proximity to the vanished dynasty allowed him to hope so. But Boris Godunov became tsar, who tormented the prince with his suspicion and distrust. To survive, Vasily Shuisky had to have extraordinary endurance and caution, and he had these qualities in abundance.

In 1604, the impostor False Dmitry appeared within the Russian borders. Vasily Ivanovich on Red Square, with a large crowd of people, several times stated that this was undoubtedly an impostor, and he personally buried the real Tsarevich Dmitry in Uglich. Reassured by this statement, Boris Godunov sent Shuisky with troops against False Dmitry. The defeat of the impostor troops dragged on. In April, Boris Godunov died, and his son Fyodor became Tsar.

This reign was short lived. A few months later, the army swore allegiance to False Dmitry. Unrest in the capital reached its maximum. According to one version, Vasily Shuisky this time distorted the truth and said that the impostor was a true prince. This was enough to decide the fate of the Godunovs. On May 10, the young tsar and his mother were strangled by the people of False Dmitry.

Vasily Shuisky met the impostor in Tula, and as a result was forgiven. Actions continued on June 20, when Dmitry entered Moscow. Shuisky was arrested three days later. He was reminded of all past sins, and Dmitry ordered the Zemsky Sobor to judge him. Shuisky behaved very courageously and did not retract his testimony. The result of the trial was predictable - Shuisky was sentenced to death. True, a few days later she was replaced by exile, and all the property of the Shuiskys went to the treasury.

On July 30, the wedding to the kingdom of Dmitry took place. On this occasion, an amnesty was declared. Dmitry forgave all the disgraced, including Shuisky. The boyars and all estates were returned to him.

Having been restored to his former power, Prince Vasily Ivanovich resumed his conspiratorial activities.

On the night of May 16-17, 1606, a detachment of conspirators entered Moscow, occupied all the gates and completely isolated the Kremlin. False Dmitry I was killed.

On May 19, on Red Square, with a huge crowd of people, it was proposed to elect Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky to the kingdom.

Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky - Russian Tsar

Vasily Shuisky was married to the kingdom on June 1, 1606. The wedding was modest. Immediately after this, a new patriarch was installed. They became the former Kazan Metropolitan Hermogenes, a consistent opponent of False Dmitry.

Upon accession to the throne, Shuisky gave a "kissing note" not to resolve any important issues without the Sovereign (Boyar) Duma.

Trying to remove questions that might arise in the future about the death of Tsarevich Dmitry, Vasily Ivanovich ordered that his body be brought from Uglich, and on June 3, Dmitry's relics were exhibited in the Archangel Cathedral. However, these actions could not stop the new emerging unrest.

Vasily Shuisky tried to acquire reliable supporters, and he granted all the boyars - participants in the coup of 1606 new lands with serfs, gave certain benefits. But in parallel, he continued to introduce tougher measures in the economic sphere. First of all, corvée and dues grew, which created additional discontent. A large number of runaway peasants and serfs appeared.

The emerging social tension led to the uprising of Ivan Bolotnikov (1606-1607). The government had to take urgent measures to unite the nobility and the boyars in the fight against the rebels. At the first stage, the authorities managed to cope with them. Those who remained from Bolotnikov's army went over to the side of the impostor.

In 1607, a new impostor - False Dmitry II - launched an attack on Moscow. Initially, his actions were successful - many Russian cities were captured. He did not dare to storm Moscow and settled in the near Moscow region, in the village of Tushino.

Vasily did not have enough of his own forces to fight the impostor, and he was forced to invite Swedish troops to Russia. To do this, he had to accept all the conditions of the Swedes, which caused great discontent in society. Sweden's actions aroused the displeasure of Poland and led to open intervention on her part. The Poles moved inland and laid siege to Smolensk. And on June 24, 1610, the combined Russian-Swedish army was defeated by the Poles near the village of Klushino, near Vyazma. The road to Moscow was open.

Vasily Shuisky was left without support. The Moscow boyars put forward an ultimatum to him, in which they demanded to lay down the royal power. On July 19, he was forcibly tonsured a monk and imprisoned in the Miracle Monastery. The Moscow boyars went further, and in September 1610 they surrendered the former tsar and his family to the Poles. The Polish hetman Zholkiewski took him to Poland, where he was placed in the Gostyn castle. Shuisky died there in 1612.