🇷🇺 #OnThisDay, on November 4, we celebrate National Unity Day.

In 1612, the people's militia, led by the Zemstvo’s leader Kuzma Minin and knyaz Dmitry Pozharsky, liberated Moscow from the Polish invaders.

🇷🇺With the expulsion of the Poles, a long period of ‘Time of Troubles’ in Russia ended. A few months after the liberation of Moscow, the Zemsky Sobor, which included representatives of all classes of the country, elected a new tsar, Mikhail Fedorovich, a representative of the Romanov dynasty.

In memory of the liberation of the state two centuries later, the famous monument to Minin and Pozharsky was erected with public donations. It became the first sculptural monument in Moscow. Work on it continued even during the Patriotic War of 1812.

🇷🇺 On November 4, an important Orthodox holiday is also celebrated – the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. According to legend, the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was sent from Kazan to Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and became the patroness of the people's militia. The army entered Moscow with the icon. Today, the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God stands on Red Square, consecrated in 1637 in memory of the heroes who liberated the capital.

@ruscultureusa 🇷🇺