Second People’s Militia

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The Second People’s Militia was a volunteer Russian force formed in 1611–1612 that helped liberate Moscow from Polish-Lithuanian occupation during the Time of Troubles.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical organization
militia
volunteer military force
achievement liberation of Moscow from Polish–Lithuanian forces
associatedWith Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
Russian national liberation movement
commander Prince Dmitry Pozharsky
commandStructure council of nobles and town representatives
commemoratedBy National Unity Day (Russia)
linked to: National Unity Day
commemoratedOn 4 November
conflict Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
consequence facilitated election of Mikhail Romanov as tsar in 1613
country Russia
endTime 1612
formedInContextOf Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow
fundingMethod special tax on Nizhny Novgorod population
voluntary donations
hasHero Dmitry Pozharsky
Kuzma Minin
hasType irregular troops
popular levy
historicalSignificance helped end the Time of Troubles in Russia
language Russian
leader Dmitry Pozharsky
Kuzma Minin
location Nizhny Novgorod
memorializedBy Minin and Pozharsky Monument on Red Square
notableEvent march from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow in 1612
siege of Moscow in 1612
storming of Kitai-gorod in Moscow
operationalArea Moscow
opponent Polish garrison in Moscow
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
organizedBy Kuzma Minin
partOf Time of Troubles
precededBy First People’s Militia
purpose liberation of Moscow from Polish–Lithuanian occupation
recruitedFrom Cossacks
Russian peasants
Russian townspeople
citizens of Nizhny Novgorod
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
result withdrawal and capitulation of Polish garrison in Moscow
startTime 1611
usedTactics blockade of enemy garrison
siege warfare

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Prince Dmitry Pozharsky commanded Second People’s Militia
Russian popular militias hasPart Second People’s Militia