Russian volunteer army of 1612

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The Russian volunteer army of 1612 was a citizen-led militia formed under Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky that liberated Moscow from Polish-Lithuanian occupation during Russia’s Time of Troubles.

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instanceOf citizen army
military unit
militia
alsoKnownAs Second People’s Militia of 1611–1612
Second Volunteer Army
associatedWith Russian national liberation movement
Zemstvo movement
basedOn popular self-organization of Russian citizens
cityLiberated Moscow
commander Dmitry Pozharsky
commemoratedBy National Unity Day
commemoratedOn 4 November
conflict Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
Time of Troubles
country Tsardom of Russia
countryLiberated Russia
endTime 1612
event liberation of Moscow in 1612
formedIn Nizhny Novgorod
funding citizen donations
hasPart Nizhny Novgorod militia
historicalPeriod Time of Troubles
ideology defense of Orthodoxy
defense of Russian sovereignty
language Russian
leader Dmitry Pozharsky
Kuzma Minin
legacy contributed to establishment of the Romanov dynasty
symbol of Russian national unity
location Nizhny Novgorod
notableCommander Prince Dmitry Pozharsky
notableEngagement battles around the Moscow Kremlin in 1612
siege of Moscow (1612)
notableFigure Kuzma Minin
opponent Polish garrison in Moscow
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
organizer Kuzma Minin
partOf Second Volunteer Army
purpose expel Polish–Lithuanian forces from Moscow
restore Russian state authority
recruitment voluntary enlistment
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
result end of Polish garrison in the Moscow Kremlin
liberation of Moscow from occupation
socialBase Cossacks
Russian nobles
townspeople of Nizhny Novgorod
startTime 1611

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Minin and Pozharsky Square commemorates Russian volunteer army of 1612