Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (died 1642)

Dmitry Pozharsky

Russian prince (1577–1642)

Dmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky was a Russian prince known for his military leadership during the Polish–Russian War from 1611 to 1612. Pozharsky formed the Second Volunteer Army with Kuzma Minin in Nizhny Novgorod against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's occupation of Russia…