Polish-Lithuanian

The cathedral was built between 1625 and 1636 to commemorate the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian nobles who overran Russia in the era known as the Time of Troubles.

1993 November 5, Judith Ingram, “Moscow Journal; For the Faithful, a Resurrection on Red Square”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2023

Tom Kaminski, managing editor of traffic and transit information at WCBS-AM (880), said that in the pantheon of mispronounced New York landmarks, Van Wyck was neck-and-neck with the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Queens and Brooklyn and was named in the 1940s for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian hero of the Revolutionary War.

2011 May 25, Dan Bilefsky, “In Jam on Van Wyck? Try to Say It Right”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2011

That theme was reprised this month, on the 400th anniversary of the uprising that expelled a Polish-Lithuanian occupation, ending what Russians call the “time of troubles.”

2012 November 20, Ellen Barry, “Putin, in Need of Cohesion, Pushes Patriotism”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2012

Russian nationalists marched on Tuesday in Moscow to commemorate Unity Day, which celebrates a victory over Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612.

2014 November 5, Neil MacFarquhar, Andrew Roth, “On Unity Day, Putin Divides Nationalists”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2015