Kuzma Minin, the Russian leader of a popular militia that drove the Poles out of Russia at the end of the Time of Troubles in 1612, also happened to be a butcher.
Kuzma Minin | Photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of the 1920s describing the circumstances of a fatal accident with Red Cossack, Kuzma Pavlo's son, Bublyk in 1925 in Izyaslav, Ukrainian Republic | photo of Ukrainian Soviet newspaper article of 1920s describing the circumstances of fatal accident with Red Cossack Kuzma Pavlo's son Bublyk in 1925 year in Izyaslav | Minin and Pozharsky | Leonid Minin | Dolič, Kuzma | Amir al-Mu`minin | Amir al-Mu´minin |
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.