Yemelyan Pugachev

Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev ({{lang-ru|???????? ????????? ???????}}), born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II. Alexander Pushkin wrote a remarkable history of the rebellion; and he recounted some of the events in his novel Captain's Daughter (1836).

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1740 - 1742 - 1775 - Russia - Cossack - Insurrection - Catherine II - Alexander Pushkin

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