The Last of The Shuyskys
The last of the Russian Shuyskys were four brothers - Vasily Ivanovich Shuysky (briefly Russian tsar as Vasily IV), Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky (infamous for having poisoned his brilliant cousin, Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuysky), Alexander Ivanovich Shuysky, and Ivan Ivanovich Shuysky "Pugovka" ("the Button"). All four were boyars and grandsons of Andrey Mikhailovich.
The last scion of the family, Ivan Pugovka, was put in charge of the courts in Moscow during the reign of his brother-in-law Vasily IV. Pugovka outlived his brothers after he was taken with them into captivity in Poland as a result of Vasily IV's fall in 1610, and managed to return and marry a sister of Tsarina Maria Dolgorukova. Upon his death in 1638 the family went extinct.
Ivan Dmitrievich "Gubka" Szujski (the Sponge) descendants received an Jasnahorodka estate (near Makariv) and one branch reportedly survives in Poland, while do not use their title.
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