| rok = 1987
| strony = 89
}}</ref> the national hero of Russia who, together with Kuzma Minin, lead an uprising which liberated Moscow from Polish occupation back in 1612. Halbański referenced this claim to what he called ``serious historians of culinary arts", even though, back in the 1980s, there were still very few serious historians who would deem culinary arts to be a topic worthy of serious historical research. Anyway, the idea that Pozharsky cutlets have anything to do with Dmitry Pozharsky, isn't true either. The only thing that is true, so far, is that Pozharsky cutlets originate from Russian, rather than Polish, cuisine.
Historical sources indicate that ''pozharskiye kotlyety''{{czyt|пожарские котлеты}} were first created in Torzhok, a town in the Tver Region, on the road from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. It was there that, in the first half of the 19th century, a man called Yevdokim Pozharsky ran an inn, which was famous for the chicken cutlets that were served therein.