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Poland's Intervention in the Aftermath of Russia's Time of Troubles (1611)
1611 was the peak of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's deep intervention in Russia's Time of Troubles: the Moscow uprising was crushed, Smolensk f…
Timeline
- 1611Moscow · RussiaBecause Poland forced Muscovites to help defend the city, resistance erupted; vanguard troops of the First Militia and citizens rose up, and Pozharsky was seriously wounded at Lubyanka. The Polish garrison counterattacked and set fire to the outer city; the uprising failed, and Poland still controlled the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod.
- 1611Smolensk · Smolensk OblastAfter a 20-month siege, Polish forces blew open the walls with mines and entered Smolensk; about 3,000 Russian defenders detonated explosives in the Cathedral of the Dormition to die martyrs, and commander Mikhail Shein was captured, marking Poland's military high point in the war.
- 1611Central Russia · RussiaSigismund refused the condition of his son taking the throne without converting to Orthodoxy, and pro-Polish boyars lost support; Patriarch Hermogenes called for resistance against Poland from prison, and Nizhny Novgorod and elsewhere prepared the Second Militia—Polish military victories failed to translate into stable rule.
Sources
- Polish–Russian War (1609–1618) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Russian_War_(1609%E2%80%931618)
- Moscow Uprising (1611) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Uprising_(1611)
- Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Smolensk_(1609%E2%80%9311)