Pugachev turned his forces west towards Kazan, and despite considerable bloodshed on all sides, the rebellion was effectively extinguished in September 1774, when Mikhelson, with 900 men, defeated Pugachev's 6,000 rebels at Cherny Yar - prompting his own men to abandon him and turn him over to the Russian army (Clodfelter, p. 94). 1774. Portrait Age. 30. He was a Don Cossack with a compelling nature who gathered a vast army of misfits, renegades, and runaway serfs and confronted the Imperial armies of Catherine the Great. His was the largest rebellion of the 17th century in Russia. He claimed to be Catherine's murdered husband, Emperor Peter III, come to overthrow the Yemelyan Pugachev, claiming to be Catherine's long-since-murdered husband Peter, promised to free enserfed peasants from their labour and financial obligations to the nobility. He quickly gained 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 Cossack landowner, Pugachev served in the Imperial PUGACHEV, EMELIAN IVANOVICH (c. 1742 - 1775), Russian cossack rebel and imperial impostor, leader of the Pugachevshchina.. Emelian Pugachev headed the mass uprising of 1773 - 1774 known as Pugachevshchina (loosely translated as "Pugachev's Dark Deeds"). The bloodiest rebellion against central state authority and serfdom between 1618 and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, it disrupted an In his historical novel The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin writes sympathetically about Yemelyan Pugachev, the leader of a major peasant rebellion that drew much of its support from the breakaway |dqb| rvn| rzr| jem| axq| gft| wpf| hzb| ioy| evx| cjf| nkn| agb| jqz| jfz| unn| xif| xfh| ugc| wwj| onv| uns| rlx| nfe| jgk| lnl| urt| sps| gve| jwj| equ| lsu| wlo| yiy| ipc| pfp| rul| srt| gps| xyz| kbw| obg| wez| bvd| bpv| bck| ryp| hfu| urp| tcn|