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Yemelyan Pugachev
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Yemelyan Pugachev
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev
(c. 1742 – ) was a pretender to the
Russian
throne who led a great
Cossack insurrection
during the reign of
Catherine II
.
Alexander Pushkin
wrote a notable history of the rebellion,
The History of Pugachev
, and he recounted some of the events in his novel
The Captain's Daughter
(1836).
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