Brief biography of Shuisky

In Moscow itself there were many dissatisfied with Shuisky. His adherents, with the help of which he reigned and who did not reward, reproached him for stinginess; Many boyars themselves wanted to take the throne. With no support, Shuisky did not possess the abilities of the ruler and did not know how to act boldly and decisively. All his reign was a continuous turmoil.

Soon, a new impostor appeared from Lithuania, False Dmitry II, known as the Tushinsky thief from the village of Tushin, 12 miles from Moscow, where his camp was located, but to him. The detachments from Tushin scattered around the Moscow regions and robbed. The Poles under the command of Jan Sapieha and Lisovsky besieged the Trinity Lavra, which defended 16 months.

Shuisky turned to the Swedes for help, sending Skopin to negotiating his nephew. King Swedish Charles IX willingly helped Shuisky. The Swedish detachment, into a person, under the command of General Delagardi, connected with the nephew of Shuisky Skopin. They moved from Novgorod to Moscow, cleansing the region from Tushino gangs, lying in their way. Sigismund III, the King of Poland, declared the Shuisky war, besieged Smolensk and demanded that all the Poles who served the impostor come to his aid.

Then the impostor, afraid that he would not be given to the enemies, secretly fled from Tushin to Kaluga. Then the entire Tushinsky camp broke up. Moscow freed herself from the Tushinsky thief G. But soon he fell ill at a feast and died a few days later. The death of Skopin, a talented commander, was a difficult loss for the whole Russian land, which was threatened by Sigismund, called to Moscow by traitors, and King Vasily could stay on the throne only thanks to the victories of his nephew.

At this time, the army, sent by Shuisky against Sigismund, suffered a severe defeat at the village of Klushin from the hetman Zholkeevsky, who, after this victory, went to Moscow to build Vladislav to the Moscow throne. The impostor also moved from Kaluga to Moscow. Then the Moscow boyars, led by Zakhar Lyapunov, deposed Shuisky and tonsured him into monks.

Interior began - G. before the election of the new king, the Boyar Duma, called by its members of 7 seven -core, began to rule the state. At this time, the Poles who mastered Moscow, taking advantage of the Nonvania, roamed countless gangs in Russia robbed and burned everything that came across to them. Almost all of the Russian land was empty and nicknamed this fierce time - by licoil.

This continued until the deliverers of the Russian people - Minn and Pozharsky and until the Moscow throne Mikhail Fedorovich, the first king from the Romanov House, did not come to the rescue.