Our researchers, in more or less detail, touch on the intrigues against Skopin and the opinions that existed regarding his death; but eliminate further “inferences from these data. Another book. Shcherbatov, with his characteristic caution, noted: “Although our chroniclers tell, however, nothing other than popular rumor, that he was allegedly poisoned by the wife of Prince D. I. Shuisky; but it seems that the very signs of his illness, the incessant bleeding from the nose, is to disprove this opinion; for there is hardly any poison that could do anything other than this sign of illness.” to produce; and in nature such deaths happen. And so I consider these relatives of the prince to be acquitted of an unfounded accusation" (VII, part II, 383).
When describing these events, the book. Shcherbatov used the Chronicle of the Rebellions, which says: “In a short time, a sin for our sake, Prince Mikhailo Vasilyevich fell into a serious illness, and hours of the month of April at 23 dea this governor will come... In the morning the light of Tuesday and the rising sun could be heard quickly throughout the city: having departed from this world, the prince died. Mich. Vasilievich" (1І8Popov's collection, 384); and in 1610, April 23 actually fell on the ■ovedelnik.
PRINCE MICHAEL VIOLENCE ch; '! Kommersant SKOPYAN-SHUYOKIY.
His illness was getting worse and he was constantly bleeding from his nose. He was worthy of repentance... he betrayed his spirit.... Many people in Moscow say that his aunt, his princess Katerina Dmitrieva, Shuiskova’s wife, spoiled him; but the truth is, only God knows, I think that all people are out of that hatred, that sin for our sakes I hate each other and envy each other "... (177-178). Prince Shcherbatov did not use other materials; he was also unaware of the Philaret Manuscript, which deserves attention due to its official nature.
Karamzin, having told, with his characteristic picturesqueness, Skopin-Shuisky’s reception at the last feast, remarks: "They assured the people of a natural end, but could not assure them. They saw or guessed gloating and blamed it for the crime without evidence: for suddenness alone, and not the kind of death, confirmed the suspicion, disastrous for Vasily and his neighbors" (XII, 126). Karamzin refers to the same chronicle, the Pskov chronicle, Palitsyn’s Legend, chronographs (Stolyar. and Klyuchar.), foreign news (Widekind and Bussov) and the Philaret Manuscript, which is important in this regard. We will touch on the evidence presented below, but here we will only note that the Filaret Manuscript was known to Karamzin in a brief extract, in which the real fact is stated as follows; “I got sick at the christening feast, at Prince Ivan Mikhail Vorotynsky’s,” etc. (see above in the note).