Minin & Pozharsky Statue

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Out front of St Basil’s Cathedral is a statue of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, one a butcher and the other a prince, who together raised and led the army that ejected occupying Poles from the Kremlin in 1612.

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