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 first time Moscow was pillaged and burned happened during the Mongol invasion of Russia, long before the city became the capital of the country. An average city of the Vladimir Principality...

Aug 18, 2017 · Battle with polish interventionists at the vladimir gate of kitai-gorod (china town) in moscow, 1612, watercolor by g, lissner. In the early 17th century, the united Polish-Lithuanian...

By spring 1611, most of Moscow had been liberated and the Polish-Lithuanian garrison inside the Kremlin was under siege.

Oct 17, 2024 · After a few skirmishes, the pro-Polish faction gained dominance, and the Poles were allowed into Moscow on 8 October. The boyars opened Moscow's gates to the Polish troops and asked Żółkiewski to protect them from anarchy.

Sep 17, 2024 · In Chapter 1, Nowak reviews the 10th through 15th centuries of relations between the Polish state and the neighboring precursor states of Moscow, commonly called Rus or Kyivan Rus.

Feb 20, 2024 · Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by the United Nations’ education and culture agency, UNESCO.

Relations between Poland and the Russian Federation have been contentious in recent years. Some of the contention has revolved around competing interpretations of events leading up to and during the Second World War.

Moscow held back until 1654, when Bohdan Khmelnytsky agreed to place the Zaporozhian Host and the territories it held — Kiev and all Ukraine east of the Dnieper — under the tsar's protection. But the greater inducement to military intervention was the opportunity to recover Smolensk.

Poland exploited Russia's civil wars when powerful members of the Polish szlachta began influencing Russian boyars and supporting successive pretenders to the title of tsar of Russia against the crowned tsars Boris Godunov (r. 1598–1605) and …