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Pugachev's Rebellion ( Russian: Восстание Пугачёва, romanized : Vosstaniye Pugachyova; also called the Peasants' War 1773–1775 or Cossack Rebellion) of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organized ...
- 1773-1775
- Russian Empire
Apr 3, 2024 · Yemelyan Pugachev (born c. 1742, Zimoveyskaya-na-Donu, Russia—died January 21 [January 10, Old Style], 1775, Moscow) was the leader of a major Cossack and peasant rebellion in Russia ( Pugachev Rebellion, 1773–75). An illiterate Don Cossack, Pugachev fought in the Russian army in the final battles of the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), in ...
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Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (also spelled Pugachyov; Russian: Емельян Иванович Пугачёв; c. 1742 – 21 January [ O.S. 10 January] 1775) was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, a major popular uprising in the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great . The son of a Don ...
Yemelyan Pugachev (born c. 1742, Zimoveyskaya-na-Donu, Russia—died January 21 [January 10, Old Style], 1775, Moscow) was the leader of a major Cossack and peasant rebellion in Russia ( Pugachev Rebellion, 1773–75). An illiterate Don Cossack, Pugachev fought in the Russian army in the final battles of the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), in ...
The rebellion led by Cossack Yemelyan Pugachev, later dubbed the Peasants’ War, shook the Russian Empire in the late 18 century. The “ghost of Pugachev” haunted Imperial Russia until its ...
On August 12, 1772, a wandering Don Cossack named Emelian Pugachev crossed the Polish frontier into Imperial Russia on an official passport that entitled him, after spending six weeks in quarantine, to resettle as a free citizen on the Irgiz River in southeast Russia. It was a strange crossing. One of the border guards said to another, “You ...
Though the Russian Empire had stretched eastward by 1773 - the year that Yemelyan Pugachev's uprising against local authorities gathered steam - Ufa remained a provincial city in southern Russia. Pugachev himself was born into an Old Believer and Don Cossack family in 1740, but his rebellion's success hinged on a resource Orenburg Province had ...
