Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow
A people's militia drives the Polish garrison out of the Kremlin
At the end of the Time of Troubles, the militia of Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky repulsed Hetman Chodkiewicz's relief army in September 1612 and that autumn forced the Polish–Lithuanian garrison in the Kremlin to surrender.
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