According to legends, when some of the Poles and their followers stood at the place of the current Yegoryevsk, where False Dmitry was later defeated by prince Dmitry Pozharsky, on the bank of the Shuvoyka River the Russian troops fought one of the Polish detachments.
His oratorio Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow (1811) concerned the 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation during the Time of Troubles interregnum by the Second Zemschina Army led by Kuzma Minin-Sukhoruk, a fishmonger, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.
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