Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Chestokol Shuisky (? - 1543 ) - Russian statesman. The son of Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Shuisky , the grandfather of Tsar Vasily Shuisky .
In 1524 - the governor on the Ugra.
In 1528, with his brother Ivan Shuisky, he intended to make a career (“ drive off ”) with Prince Yuri Dmitrovsky . Governor of the right-hand regiment in the army of Vasily Shuisky Mute and Ivan Vasilievich Shuisky on a campaign to Nizhny Novgorod .
In 1534, after the death of Vasily III, he was about to “ move off ” again. By order of Elena Glinsky, he was thrown into prison and released only after her death in 1538.
Viceroy of Novgorod (1539-1540) and Pskov (1540). He proved himself a cruel and greedy administrator. Returning to Moscow , he led the struggle for influence at court.
After the death of Ivan Vasilievich Shuisky and the assassination of Ivan Belsky, he became the head of the boyar government in May 1542.
In September 1543, Andrei Shuisky and his associates, before the eyes of Metropolitan Makarii and 13-year-old Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, beat Boyar Fyodor Vorontsov .
On December 29, 1543, the Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich , accusing the Shuiskys of “repairing lawlessness and arbitrariness”, “ordered him to be betrayed to the kennel, and the kennel took and killed him” [1] . The viceroy of Moscow "lay naked at the gate for two hours." The death of Andrei Mikhailovich put an end to Shuisky’s influence on big politics [2] .
Children
- Ivan Andreevich Shuisky
Notes
- ↑ Piskarevsky chronicler . // PSRL . - T-34.
- ↑ Platonov S.F. Ivan the Terrible. Feature article
Links
- Rudakov V.E. Shuiskys, princely family // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Gelvikh A. Shuisky, Andrei Mikhailovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.