biography
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Razin, Stepan Timofeyevich
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known as Stenka Razin
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pronunciation:
[razeen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1630–71)
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| biography:
| Russian Cossack, and leader of a Cossack and peasant revolt (1670–1) directed against the boyars and landowning nobility. In April 1671 he was captured, taken to Moscow and publicly executed. He became a folk-hero celebrated in later legend and song as the embodiment of popular rebellion against authority. |
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