The artist is Ivanov
At the end of 1608, a wide national liberation movement against the Polish-Lithuanian intervention, which was headed by Prince M, rose in Russia. AT. Skopin-Shuisky. In January 1610, the Polish siege of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery was shot. On March 12, the regiments of Skopin-Shuisky entered the capital, and on April 29 he suddenly died, possibly from poisoning. The Poles took Moscow again. The second militia of 1612 was headed by the Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma (Kozma) Minin, who invited Prince D to lead the military operations. M. Pozharsky. (AT. Pood.)
Electronic catalog “Heroes and villains of Russian history”. SPb, 2010. With. 132.
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky (1578 – about 1641) was the main organizer of the People’s Militia and was his military leader, while Minin was responsible for the economic part. The event depicted by the artist dates back to 1611, when Pozharsky, wounded in one of the attacks on the Poles, went for treatment to his Nizhny Novgorod estate. At the direction of Minin, ambassadors came to him – Archimandrite of Nizhny Novgorod Theodosius “with respectable nobles” in order to ask the prince to take the army collected for salvation. For his part, Pozharsky demanded that when the elected electoral from Posadsky, Minin was a reliable person who could “gather the treasury” and “complaining of military people”. After the liberation of Moscow (October 22–26, 1612) and the wedding at the kingdom of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov Pozharsky held only secondary positions, although he was close to the court. (WITH. M.)
Electronic catalog “Heroes and villains of Russian history”. SPb, 2010. With. 134.
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