Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupation of Moscow took place between 1610 and 1612 during the Polish intervention in Russia, when the Kremlin was occupied by the Polish garrison with additional Lithuanian units under the command of hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski and assisted by Russian boyars led by Mikhail Saltykov. The occupation coincided with Russia's Time of Troubles.
Stanisław Żółkiewski
Expulsion of the Polish–Lithuanian invaders from the Kremlin
Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow. Painting by Mikhail Scotti (1850)
Poles in Russian captivity
Stanisław Żółkiewski was a Polish nobleman of the Lubicz coat of arms, a magnate, military commander, and Chancellor of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who took part in many military campaigns in the Commonwealth and on its southern and eastern borders.
Stanisław Żółkiewski and Baltazar Batory at Pskov, detail from a painting by Jan Matejko
Death of Stanisław Żółkiewski with his confessor, Father Szymon Wybierski, Battle of Cecora (1620), painting by Walery Eljasz Radzikowski
Monument to Żókiewski, near the site of his death in modern Moldova