person
Vasily Shuisky
Shuisky
also: Schuiskij, Vasily IV
Boyar who led the 1606 uprising that overthrew and killed the False Dmitri, then reigned as Tsar Vasily IV until 1610.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §364 Shuisky
Vasily Shuisky (Rilke: Schuiskij), the boyar who led the 1606 rising that killed the False Dmitri and then took the throne himself as Tsar Vasily IV.