Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow

The city was finally liberated by the Second People's Militia, and the date of the capture of Kitay-Gorod is celebrated in modern Russia as the Day of National Unity[1] on November 4, alongside festivities in honour of Our Lady of Kazan.

Although he personally opposed the occupation of the Russian capital, he entered the city under the pressure of Polish king Sigismund III.

In March 1611, in connection with the formation of the First People's Militia, the commander of the Polish-Lithuanian garrison, Aleksander Gosiewski, engaged in several street battles during which most of Moscow was burned.

"[4] After the death of Sapieha in September 1611, Lithuanian commander Jan Karol Chodkiewicz took over the difficult task of collecting food.

Trubetskoy's Cossacks established control of Kitay-Gorod at the beginning of November,[7] after which Struś opened negotiations on terms of surrender.

"[8] Before the Truce of Deulino was signed in 1619, which ended the Russian-Polish War and fostered an exchange of prisoners, the Poles and Lithuanians captured in the Kremlin were settled in Yaroslavl, Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod and other Upper Volga cities.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the mother of Prince Pozharsky put in her word for the prisoners, so they only were thrown "in a dungeon very dark, poor and stinking, in which they had been sitting for nineteen weeks".