House of Shuysky | |
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Parent house | Rurikids |
Country | Russia |
Founded | 1606 |
Founder | Vasili IV |
Current head | ? (possibly extinct) |
Final ruler | Russia: Vasili IV (1606–1610) |
Titles | Tsar of Russia |
Estate(s) | Principality of Suzdal–Nizhny Novgorod |
Deposition | Russia: 1610 (abdicated the throne, line extinct afterwards) |
Cadet branches | senior junior |
The House of Shuysky (Shuisky; Russian: Шуйские, romanized: Shuyskiye) was a Rurikid family of Boyars descending from Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich of Vladimir-Suzdal and Prince Andrey Yaroslavich, brother to Alexander Nevsky. The surname is derived from the town of Shuya, of which the Shuiskys gained ownership in 1403. From 1606 to 1610, Vasili Shuisky ruled as tsar over Russia during the Time of Troubles.