Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky was a Russian boyar from the Shuisky family, a younger brother to Vasily IV of Russia.
As a playmate of young Tsarevich Feodor Ivanovich, Dmitry was said to accompany him day and night in his devout wanderings from monastery to monastery. In 1584, his slandering of Prince Ivan Belsky led to riots in Moscow. Two years later, he was attested as a governor of Kargopol. On Fyodor's accession to the throne, he quarrelled with another boyar, Boris Godunov, and was expelled to his family patrimony in Shuya. Later he made peace with Godunov and married his sister-in-law.
Shuisky is best remembered as a singularly incapable general. He was routed by False Dmitry I in 1606 and shared disgrace and imprisonment with his brother Vasily. When the latter was elected Tsar, he put Dmitry in charge of the army which would lose its every battle against the Polish invaders and their allies. At last he was relieved of his duties and replaced with a young cousin, Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, whom many regarded as the future tsar.
The rumour had it that Dmitry grew jealous of his much more successful colleague and poisoned Mikhail in his own house. This was cited as one of the reasons for Shuisky being snubbed by his soldiers and populace. In the Battle of Klushino he suffered an ignominious defeat: he was asleep when the battle started and escaped to Moscow barefoot. The Poles captured him and took with them to Warsaw, where he died in 1613.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky was a Russian boyar from the Shuisky family, a younger brother to Vasily IV of Russia. As a playmate of young Tsarevich...
(1598–1613), Vasily and his younger brother DmitryShuisky usually acted together and fought as one. It was Shuisky who, in obedience to the secret orders...
Kaluga.: 271 Tsar Vasilii made his brother DmitryShuisky his main commander following the death of Skopin-Shuisky. In June, aided by 10,000 mercenary troops...
Shuisky retracted his earlier claim of accidental death and asserted that Dmitry was murdered on Boris Godunov's orders. On 3 June 1606, Dmitry's remains...
False Dmitry II (Russian: Лжедмитрий II, romanized: Lzhedmitrii II; died 21 December [O.S. 11 December] 1610), historically known as Pseudo-Demetrius II...
Moscow." Dmitry's reign had lasted only eleven months before Prince Shuisky took his place. Two further impostors later appeared, False Dmitry II and False...
support Russian forces under Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky. The De la Gardie campaign was successful against False Dmitry II, dispersing his court in Tushino – a...
his death in 1590. Dmitry of Uglich was heir presumptive to his half-brother Feodor I of Russia until his death in 1591. DmitryShuisky was heir presumptive...
of Grand Prince of Vladimir from his son-in-law, Dmitry Donskoy, from 1360 to 1363. The famous Shuisky family descends from his eldest son, Vasily Kirdyapa...
with the policy of Vasily Shuisky and in December 1608 he joined the army of False Dmitry II. After the death of False Dmitry II, Trubetskoy enters into...
Prince DmitryShuisky was heading towards the besieged fortress of Smolensk, but was intercepted by Polish-Lithuanian forces. In the meantime, Shuisky divided...
The House of Shuysky (Shuisky; Russian: Шуйские, romanized: Shuyskiye) was a Rurikid family of Boyars descending from Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich...
Lisowski. After Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky’s sudden death in April 1610, Valuyev was transferred under the command of DmitryShuisky and sent to defend the western...
Bolkhov on May 10–11, 1608, the troops of False Dmitry II managed to defeat the army of Tsar Vasily Shuisky. From the Tsar's side at least 30 thousand soldiers...
False Dmitry I, rumors spread around Moscow that it was not Dmitry who was killed in the palace, but someone else. These rumors made Vasily Shuisky's position...
while Skopin-Shuisky was poisoned at the behest of his uncle and rival, Prince DmitryShuisky. In June 1610, De la Gardie and DmitryShuisky departed from...
the city. In June 1610, De la Gardie and Prince DmitryShuisky – an uncle and rival of Skopin-Shuisky (who was poisoned at the behest of his uncle) –...
the throne. In the period 1610–1612 after the overthrow of Tsar Vasily Shuisky, power in Moscow belonged to the Boyar Duma, which created an interim government...
with DmitryShuisky. Khovansky took part in the Battle of Klushino, where Shuisky suffered a severe defeat from Hetman Żółkiewski. When Dmitry Pozharsky...
ruler Boris Godunov, Vasily Shuisky came to power, triggering a conflict with a pretender to the Russian throne, False Dmitry II. Additionally, Russia began...
Seven Boyars") were a group of Russian nobles who deposed Tsar Vasily Shuisky on 17 July 1610 and, later that year, invited the Poles into Moscow. The...
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the war of Tsar Vasily Shuisky with False Dmitry II ("Tushinsky Thief") in 1608, the campaign of Prince Mikhail Skopin Shuisky against supporters of the...
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.