What holiday is November 4?

Since 2004, a newholiday on November 4. What holiday has become the new red number in the calendar? And what for a holiday on November, 4th has replaced an old kind holiday on November, 7th? This is the Day of National Unity. It is no coincidence that this holiday received such a loud name. It was on this day (according to the old calendar of October 22) that Moscow was liberated from the Polish invaders, and this Time ended the Time of Troubles in Russia. Minin and Pozharsky, visiting a moleben in honor of the Kazan Mother of God, laid siege to the city of China for the blessing and forced the Polish interventionists to leave it. Bearing an icon with the image of the Mother of God, whose day is also celebrated on November 4, they entered the city. The image of the Virgin was always salutary for Rus. Hence the day of the liberation of Russia began. In Moscow, there were still interventionists who later gradually left, or they were helped to liberate the city.

This holiday replaced November 7, one of the mainholidays of the country, when the Day of the Great October Revolution was celebrated. The government considered that this date came from Soviet times, so it should be replaced by a more significant one on the Day of National Unity.