Events
Liberation of Moscow
The Second Volunteer Army
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- 1612
The Second Volunteer Army led by Minin and Pozharsky, together with Cossack forces, secured the liberation of Moscow from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's garrison. These military successes made it possible to convene the Zemsky Sobor and elect a new tsar.
- Leaders
- Kuzma Minin, Dmitry Pozharsky; the Cossack forces of Dmitry Trubetskoy
- Outcome
- Surrender of the Kremlin garrison in autumn 1612