Posted on 01/10/2023 2:43:35 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1775, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great had Cossack rebel Yemelyan Pugachev chopped to pieces in Moscow for sustaining a major insurrection whose effects would haunt Russia for decades to come.
Pugachev’s Rebellion was the most spectacular specimen in populous family tree of 18th century peasant uprisings.
Most such disturbances were local and fundamentally unthreatening. Pugachev’s was neither.
The Cossack commander raised a revolt in the Urals in 1773, styling himself the long-lost tsar Catherine had overthrown a decade before.
Catherine was slow to see the import, but this hinterlands pretender set up a state-like bureaucracy and began issuing ukases as tsar — and one can readily discern from their content why he attracted a following:
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Nancy would loved to have order that done to the J-6 ‘insurrectionists’. “If only I had lived back then!’
Nancy would loved to have order that done to the J-6 ‘insurrectionists’. “If only I had lived back then!’
Pugachev should not have threatened the nobles with execution. He should have recruited them. He might have won. (probably not).
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