Note 95 — THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER I. AND V. N. KARAZIN[79]
Constance Garnett translation
Minin was a meat-merchant of Nizhni-Novgorod who roused the people to form a national army, deliver Russia from the Poles and elect a Tsar. At his suggestion the command of the army, to which men flocked from all parts of Russia, was entrusted to Pozharsky, a nobleman of good reputation and great military ability. Under his command the Russians succeeded in driving the Poles out of Moscow, and eventually out of Russia. A zemsky sobor was summoned which elected Michael Romanov as Tsar.