Dynasty
Interregnum
The Seven Boyars · a struggle for power
Show on the timeline- Period on the timeline
- 1610–1613
After the deposition of Vasily Shuisky, the country had no universally recognised tsar. The boyar government recognised the claim of Prince Wladyslaw on terms that did not lead to his coronation. In 1613, the Zemsky Sobor elected Michael Romanov.
- Not a dynasty
- This card marks a break in the succession of reigns.
- Wladyslaw
- Elected by part of the Moscow elite in 1610; he was not crowned and did not actually rule as tsar of Russia.