"Minin and Pozharskiy" statue(1818) commemorates Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitriy Pozharskiy who raised a volunteer force to fight the invading Poles, and succeeded in driving the Poles out of the Kremlin in 1612. This statue sites in front of "Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennovo" (St. Basil's Cathedral). (06/05/1999)