News | 04 11 2023, 07:10 | SeverPost Photo: SeverPost / Alexander Loginov In Russia, November 4 is celebrated as National Unity Day. The holiday was established in 2005 and has been a day off ever since. The history of this significant date begins in the 17th century, with the liberation of Moscow by Polish troops. The significant day is associated with the end of the Time of Troubles in Rus’ after the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian invaders on November 4, 1612. The Time of Troubles – the period of the death of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in 1584 until 1613, when the first representative of the Romanov dynasty reigned on the Russian throne – was an era of deep crisis of the Moscow state caused by the suppression of tsarist power. Rurikovich dynasty. The people’s militia, led by the zemstvo elder Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, liberated Moscow from the Polish invaders. It is believed that it was they who were able to unite and unite the population to liberate Russia from the Polish invaders. In 1613, in memory of the liberation of Moscow from the Poles, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich established a church and a state holiday in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. It was with this image that the militia fought under the walls of the Novodevichy Convent, and then liberated the Kremlin. In Russia, the date of the liberation of Moscow from the interventionists was officially celebrated before the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. Then, until 2005, the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was an exclusively Orthodox church holiday. Let us remind you that the governor of the Murmansk region, Andrei Chibis, at a meeting of the anti-terrorism commission instructed to take additional security measures on National Unity Day. Read also: Inspired by the Arctic, live broadcast in Yaroslavl To be the first to know about the main news and the most important events of the day, subscribe to our Telegram channel.
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