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

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Minin and Pozharsky Square commemorates Russian volunteer army of 1612