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Prince Alexander Borisovich Gorbatyi-Shuisky was probably the most celebrated and popular general of Ivan the Terrible.

He belonged to the powerful Shuisky
Shuisky

The Princes Shuisky were a Rurikid family of boyars descending from Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Vladimir-Suzdal and Prince Andrei II of Russia, brother to Alexander Nevsky....
 family, being the last scion of its junior branch. His father was one of the most successful generals of Vasily III, but Alexander managed to outshine him at an early age. He was made boyar
Boyar

A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism Moscovy, Kievan Rusian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian Aristocracy, second only to the ruling knyazs , from the 10th century through the 17th century....
 in 1544 and led the Russian armies against Khanate of Kazan
Khanate of Kazan

The Kazan Khanate was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan....
 in 1547.

Five years later, when Kazan
Kazan

Kazan is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture....
 was besieged, he annihilated the force of prince Yapancha at Arsk
Arsk

Arsk or Archa is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Arsky District of the Tatarstan, Russia, located on the banks of the Kazanka River, from Kazan, the republic's capital....
 Field, making possible the final conquest of Kazan later that year.






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Prince Alexander Borisovich Gorbatyi-Shuisky was probably the most celebrated and popular general of Ivan the Terrible.

He belonged to the powerful Shuisky
Shuisky

The Princes Shuisky were a Rurikid family of boyars descending from Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Vladimir-Suzdal and Prince Andrei II of Russia, brother to Alexander Nevsky....
 family, being the last scion of its junior branch. His father was one of the most successful generals of Vasily III, but Alexander managed to outshine him at an early age. He was made boyar
Boyar

A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism Moscovy, Kievan Rusian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian Aristocracy, second only to the ruling knyazs , from the 10th century through the 17th century....
 in 1544 and led the Russian armies against Khanate of Kazan
Khanate of Kazan

The Kazan Khanate was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan....
 in 1547.

Five years later, when Kazan
Kazan

Kazan is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture....
 was besieged, he annihilated the force of prince Yapancha at Arsk
Arsk

Arsk or Archa is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Arsky District of the Tatarstan, Russia, located on the banks of the Kazanka River, from Kazan, the republic's capital....
 Field, making possible the final conquest of Kazan later that year. In acknowledgement of his important services, he was appointed the first Russian governor of Kazan
Kazan

Kazan is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture....
. During the next decade he not only managed to keep Kazan in Russian hands, but also rebuilt the ruined citadel
Kazan Kremlin

The Kazan Kremlin is the chief historic citadel of Tatarstan, situated in the city of Kazan. It was built on behest of Ivan the Terrible on the ruins of the former castle of list of Kazan khans....
 and converted a large portion of the khanate's population to Christianity.

Ivan the Terrible, apparently, grew jealous of Alexander's popularity in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. In 1564 the tsar incriminated him of secretly supporting Andrey Kurbsky
Andrey Kurbsky

Knyaz Andrey Mikhailovich Kurbsky was an intimate friend and then a leading political opponent of the Russian tzar Ivan the Terrible. His correspondence with the tzar is a unique source for the history of 16th-century Russia....
 and plotting against Ivan's life. After that, Alexander and his 17-year-old son Peter were brought to Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 and beheaded.

He left two daughters, one of them being married to the noblest Muscovite boyar
Boyar

A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism Moscovy, Kievan Rusian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian Aristocracy, second only to the ruling knyazs , from the 10th century through the 17th century....
, Prince Ivan Mstislavsky, and another one - to the tsar's brother-in-law, Nikita Romanovich
Nikita Romanovich

Nikita Romanovich also known as Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuriev was a Muscovite Boyar in 1563 whose grandson Michael I of Russia founded the Romanov dynasty of Russian tsars....
. As the latter was grandfather of tsar Mikhail Romanov, the Romanov
Romanov

The House of Romanov was the second and last monarchy dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917. From 1762 until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire was ruled for five generations by a line of the House of Oldenburg descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp....
 sovereigns claimed descent from Alexander Borisovich and, consequently, from the Rurik Dynasty
Rurik Dynasty

The Rurik Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus', the successor Russian principalities, and early united Russia, from 862 to 1598.According to the Primary Chronicle, the dynasty was established in 862 by Rurik, the great legendary ruler of Novgorod....
. These claims, however, should hardly be credited for reasons of chronology.