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He was the son of Andrei Mikhailovich Shuiski. He escaped punishment
when his father was executed. Eventually he climbed back into power. In 1558 he
was a voyevode in the Livonian war. He was promoted boyar in 1569 and was
leader of the family after the death of his cousin,
Petr Ivanovich in 1564. In 1571 he commanded Russian troops during the
Crimean Tatar invasion. He was killed in battle at Kolover in Livonia in 1573.
He was succeeded as family leader by his cousin, Ivan Petrovich, son of Petr Ivanovich. His sons were
Andrei, Tsar Vasilii, Dmitrii, Aleksandr and Ivan. The family is shown on
this chart. They were continually plotting against
Boris Gudonov. Dmitrii was married to a sister of Boris's wife. Boris exiled
the brothers in 1587 when he had Ivan Petrovich killed, but they returned
within a few years. Ivan was the last of the brothers to survive, dying in 1638
without heirs, thus bringing to a close one of the most disruptive dynasties in
Russian history.
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