Perhaps his power was to be divided. But he did not forget the rest of his relatives. The volosts that formerly belonged to the Godunovs. Charanda and Vaga now went to his nephew M.V. Skopin and the king’s brother, Dm. Shuisky. The Vaga volost was usually granted to persons close to the authorities: under Fyodor Ivanovich it was owned by Boris Godunov, under Boris - Grigory Godunov, under Shuisky - Dm. Shuisky and M. Skopin; then it also went to people who managed to take advantage of power, like Mikhail. Saltykov, Zaritsky and Trubetskoy (Soloviev, VIII, 374; Zabelin in the stat. Minin and Pozharsky, Russian Arch. 1872, I, 886. note) ').
Under Tsar Vasily, Skopin-Shuisky had an accounting deal with the prince. Peter Urusov. We can infer its content from the following incident, which happened at the beginning of the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich. At the reception of the Persian ambassador (September 18, 1613), bells were appointed stewards: Prince. Yuri Ensheevich Suleshev, Iv. Peter. Sheremetev, book. Yuri Dm. Khvorostinin and Prince. Alexey Mikh. Lviv. Sheremetev beat his forehead against Suleshev, Lvov against Khvorostin. The king ordered all four to be dismissed and replaced by others. But the new assignment led to new clashes, accompanied by escape from dishonor, forced capture and imaginary illness, which entailed punishment with batogs and extradition. Without touching on these details, which are not relevant to our presentation, we will only note that the claims of Iv. Sheremetev was in turn prompted by Suleshev’s petition. Sheremetev referred to the fact that Prince. Suleshev is a foreigner and none of the Sheremetevs was smaller than him. Then Vasil began beating Sheremetev with his forehead. Iv. Buturlin, Matv. Iv. Pleshchfev-Kolotviya and Prince. Iv. Fedorovich Troekurov. They are proof-