Vasili IV of Russia

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Vasili IV of Russia : biography

22 September 1552 – 12 September 1612

Descent from Rurik

Vasili IV, the last male-line Rurikid to rule Russia, traced his descent from Rurik thus:

  1. Rurik the Viking
  2. Igor I Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
  3. Sviatoslav I Igorevich, Grand Prince of Kiev
  4. Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev
  5. Yaroslav Vladimirovich the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev
  6. Vladimir II Yaroslavich Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev
  7. Yuri Vladimirovich the Long Arm, Grand Prince of Kiev, (1099–1157)
  8. Vsevolod III Yuryevich the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Kiev, (1154–1212)
  9. Yaroslav II Feodor Vsevolodich, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, (1191–1246)
  10. Andrei II Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, (1221–1264)
  11. Vasili Andreievich, Prince of Suzdal, (1264–1309)
  12. Konstantin Vasilievich, Prince of Suzdal, (1295–1355)
  13. Dmitri Konstantinovich, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, (1324–1383)
  14. Vasili Dmitrievich Kirdyapa, Prince of Nizhniy Novgorod
  15. Yury Vasilievich, Prince Shuisky
  16. Vasili Yuryevich, Prince of Shuia, (d. 1446/58)
  17. Mikhail Vasilievich, Prince Shuisky, (d. 1445)
  18. Andrey Mikhailovich "Chastokol", Prince Shuisky, (d. 1543)
  19. Ivan Andreyevich, Prince Shuisky, (d. 1573)
  20. Vasili IV Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1612)

Marriages and issue

Vasili Shuisky was married twice. His first wife, Elena Mikhailovna Repnina, died prior his election to tsardom, and he had no children from that marriage. After his coronation, Vasili remarried Princess Ekaterina Buynosova-Rostovskaya, whose name was changed to Maria, deemed more suitable for a tsarina consort. They had two daughters together, Princesses Anna and Anastasia of all the Russias, but both died in infancy during their father’s reign, and were buried in the Old Maiden’s Convent in Kremlin. As both brothers of Vasili, Princes Dmitri Shuisky and Ivan Shuisky the Button, died also childless, the Shuiskys’ princely house became extinct after the death of the latter in 1638.