The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupation of Moscow took place between 1610 and 1612 during the Polish-Lithuanian intervention in Russia, when the Kremlin was occupied by the Polish garrison with
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
Time of Troubles
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The Time of Troubles, also known as Smuta, was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accessi
Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow
…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. From March 1611 to the autumn of 1612, the Cossacks of Prince Dmitry Trubetskoy besieged Moscow and the Polish-Lithuanian forces there. The city was…
Konstantin Makovsky's Appeal of Minin (1896) depicts Kuzma Minin against the background of the church of St. John the Baptist appealing to the people of Nizhny Novgorod to raise a militia against the Polish invaders and Sigismund III Vasa.
Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), depicting the accidental killing of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich by his father Ivan the Terrible; it made Feodor I heir to the Russian throne.
Palace in Uglich, where Tsarevich Dmitry lived and died
Sergey Ivanov's In the Time of Troubles (1886)