What the records say
- When
- Sep 1773 – 21 Jan 1775
- Kind
- Rebellion
- Coordinates
- 51.77° N, 55.10° E
- Description
- peasant revolt against Empress Catherine II of Russia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Pugachev's Rebellion
Peasant revolt against Empress Catherine II of Russia
Pugachev's Rebellion of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine II, known today as Catherine the Great, seized power in 1762. It began as an organized insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Army, against a background of profound peasant unrest and war with the Otto…
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