Shuisky

Shuisky (???????) was a Rurikid family of boyars descending from Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Vladimir-Suzdal. Their name is derived from the town of Shuya, which was in their possession since 1403.

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They represented a senior line among the descendants of Vsevolod the Big Nest and therefore treated the ruling princes of Muscovy with arrogance. They finally ascended the Russian throne in the person of Vasili IV of Russia. One branch of the family reportedly survives in Poland.

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Rurikid: redirect Rurik Dynasty...

Boyar: A boyar (also spelt bojar; Romanian: boier) was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian and Romanian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the 10th through the 17th century....

Dmitry Konstantinovich: Dmitry Konstantinovich of Suzdal (Russian: ??????? ?????????????? ???????????) (1324 – June 51383), was a powerful Prince of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod who dominated Russian politics during minority of his son-in-law, Dmitri Donskoi. The famous Shuisky family descends from his eldest son, Vasi...