Biography of Kuzma

Minin Kuzma, by his origin, he was a trading person. His father Mina Ankudinov lived in Balakhna and was engaged in trade and salvation, was considered a wealthy person. He left his fishing to his eldest sons. Kuzma, being the youngest, moved to Nizhny Novgorod and took up the trade in meat. In his business, he achieved great success, so the locals chose him in the year with a zemstvo headman.

Kuzma was actively interested in the situation in Moscow, so he knew about the battles of the first militia with the Poles, about the murder of Lyapunov, and about the arbitrariness of the Cossacks, and the calls of Patriarch Hermogenes to create a new militia. Feeling his responsibility for the fate of the country, Minin decided to raise funds to create a new militia. He turned to the inhabitants of Nizhny Novgorod with a speech in which he spoke about the situation in the country and the need to form a new army to liberate the capital from Polish captivity.

Kuzma himself set an example for everyone, giving a third of his great state to a good deed. Soon, significant funds were raised, which allowed to equip several thousand military people who were a second militia. At the head of them stood Prince D. Pozharsky, who was treated from wounds in Mugrev, and Kuzma Minin himself, who received a special rank of “a man elected all earth”.

In February, the army first moved to Kostroma, then to Yaroslavl, then it was planned to go to Rostov, Pereslavl and Moscow.

A large stop was made in Yaroslavl, where there was a significant amount of ammunition. In the summer, messengers from Moscow from Prince Trubetskoy arrived here in the summer with a message that the army of hetman Khotkevich was moving to the help of the first militia in the Kremlin and China-Gorod. The second militia was asked to arrive at the help. Pozharsky and Minin responded and quickly gathered on the road.

In August, they already fought with the Poles near the walls of the Kremlin and in Zamoskvorechye. In all these battles, the ambush regiment Minin played an important role. After the victory, Kuzma took up the material support of the militias. He supplied the uniforms and food of the warriors of the first militia, who already suffered from the absence of all this.

After the Kremlin’s delivery on October 26, Kuzma was instructed to describe the royal property and engage in the restoration of the royal palace. Both things were very difficult, because the Poles and their assistants plundered and destroyed a lot. The New Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich praised Kuzma Minin and appropriated him the rank of the Duma nobleman. The former trading man began to sit in the Boyar Duma.

He received a salary in rubles. He was instructed to collect “five -year money” taxes from the highest merchant class - members of the living room and cloth hundreds. In the year, Kuzma was sent on business to Kazan. On the way back at the beginning of the year, he died. He was buried in respect in the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Author: L. Morozova, Doctor of Historical Sciences Cover: K.

Makovsky "The appeal of Kuzma Minin to the Nizhny Novgorod in the year."