Modern historians were unable to determine the exact date of the birth of Emelyan Pugachev.The only information that reached us, as follows: during the interrogation on Nov. 4, 1774, he said that he was thirty years old.Renowned Ataman Peasants' War of 1773-1775 was born in the village Zimoveyskoy (Don Cossack area).His father was a farmer, his mother came from a Cossack family.In the village he married Sophia Nedyuzhevoy.
Immediately after the wedding, Emelyan Pugachev was sent to the front.He served in Prussia during the Seven Years War.Position marching Ataman received from Ilya Denisov.During the Turkish War of 1768-1770 years he scored an amazing courage.After a glorious siege of Bender Emelyan Pugachev was promoted to cornet.
Probably because of injuries or illness of the future rebel asks resign, but he refused it.Brave man decides to run.Three times a deserter caught, but again he was hiding.During the last escape in 1792. Pugachev appeared near Chernigov, where he met with the Old Believers.From them he moved to Yaik.It was here, in the Cossack village, Emelyan Pugachev raises its first uprising.It failed, so he was taken into custody.For such a heavy offense - treason - he is sentenced to hard labor for life.Verdict personally signed by Empress Catherine II.But Pugachev again escapes.
Way Good Soldier again resulted in Yaik steppe, to meet his sister - parties failed rebellion.During these meetings, the Cossacks awarded him the title of Emperor Peter III, miraculously survived and made head of a new uprising, has acquired unprecedented proportions.After that, the newly-born monarch proclaims its own political agenda, according to which Russia will become a Cossack and peasant State.Law of the country must "peasant king".
new war against the empire began September 17, 1773.The army of the new king moved eastward, all the while replenishing soldiers.Fugitive soldiers, peasants and Cossacks, numbering about ten thousand people, implicitly obeys his leader.Rebels precipitated and take Orenburg.Emelyan Pugachev establishes its own headquarters, the Military Collegium and secretly thought.After defeating a rebellion by General Kar covers neighboring areas: Kazan and Tobolsk Province.Minions motion raise riots in Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Chelyabinsk and Kungur.
In January 1774 the imperial court sends to suppress the rebellion of General Bibikov.In fierce fighting March 22, 1774 the body Golitsyn managed to defeat the impostor in Tatisheva fortress.Failure waiting Yemelyan in April near Samara.Ataman runs with the surviving soldiers to gather new strength.Emelyan Pugachev, whose biography is full of victories and defeats, again raises the uprising.But luck turned her back on him.Heavy defeat in Trinity fortress near Kazan Tsaritsyn and forced him to retreat.Retreat to bump people.
not know how long the war would last if among the latter-day servants of the king did not find traitors.Exhausted defeats, they seized chieftain and gave it to the authorities.He again tried to flee, but to no avail.Delivery to Moscow personally engaged in dangerous criminal Suvorov.Pugacheva was brought to the capital in an iron cage under escort incorruptible guard.January 10, 1775 daredevil executed at the Swamp area.
