Pugachev's Rebellion

Name: Pugachev's Rebellion
Start: 1773
End: 1775
Location: Yaitsky Gorodok

1773–1775 · Yaitsky Gorodok · Eastern Europe & Russia · War

A Cossack claims to be Peter III and raises the Volga and Urals

Pugachev's Rebellion — Горелов Гавриил Никитич · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Don Cossack Yemelyan Pugachev, claiming to be Emperor Peter III, raised the Yaik Cossacks, joined by serfs, factory workers and peoples of the Volga and Urals. The largest revolt of Catherine II's reign was crushed and Pugachev executed in Moscow.

State: Russian Empire

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In January 1775 Pugachev was executed in Moscow; in April the first shots of the American War of Independence were fired.

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