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Pugachev, Yemelyan Ivanovich
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also spelled Pugachov
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pronunciation:
[pugachef]
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| Russian Cossack, pretender to the Russian throne, and leader of a mass rebellion against Catherine II (1773–5), born in Zimoveyskaya-na-Donu, Russia. He proclaimed himself to be Peter III, Catherine's murdered husband, and promised to restore ancient freedoms. The rebellion was marked by great ferocity, and Pugachev's name later became a byword for the spirit of peasant revolution in Russia. He was captured in 1774 and taken to Moscow, where he was tortured and executed. |
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