Dmitry Mikhaylovich Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin (Minin and Pozharsky) gathered an all-Russian volunteer army and expelled the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Moscow, thus putting an end to the Time of Troubles in 1612 Left: Kuzma Minin calls up the nation to fight the Polish, a painting by Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky. Right: Prince Dmitry Pozharsky (1578 - 1684) 1835 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies.