On February 20 (March 4), 1818 in Moscow took place the grand opening of the monument to Kuz’ma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky (sculptor Ivan Petrovitch Martos, foundry worker Vasily Petrovitch Yekimov).
The monument was erected in honor to the events of 1612 when the united people’s volunteer corps led by the senior man of Nizhniy Novgorod Kuz’ma Minin and the voivode prince Dmitry Pozharsky liberated Moscow from Polish invaders.