[1] By March 19, 1611, the advance detachments of the people's militia, assembled near Ryazan by Prokopy Lyapunov, approached Moscow.
The Polish command tried to force the cabbies in the capital to help them prepare the city for defense and to drag the cannons on their sleighs and put them on the walls.
Most of them resolutely refused, and those who initially agreed, on the contrary, began to throw guns off the ramparts and walls.
The advance detachments of the militia, led by Prince Pozharsky, Buturlin and Koltovsky, arrived in time to help the residents of the city.
[5] On March 24, a detachment of Prosovetsky's Cossacks approached Moscow, but it was attacked by the Polish cavalry of Zborovsky and Strus, suffered significant losses and retreated.