Understanding the role of the national militia and the significance of National Unity Day (November 4).
The topic is "Окончание Смутного времени" (The End of the Time of Troubles). This chapter focuses on the formation of the Second Volunteer Army led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, the liberation of Moscow from Polish invaders in 1612, and the election of Mikhail Romanov at the Zemsky Sobor in 1613.
In modern 7th-grade Russian history textbooks (XVI–XVII centuries), Paragraph 16 typically covers the final stages of the (Smutnoye Vremya) or the transition to the early Romanov era .