Emelyan Pugachev: Little Known Facts Bashny.Net

November 15, 1774, in Moscow, in an iron cage, brought Emelyan Pugachev, whose name is linked to the peasant war in Russia and the last turning point in world history, which recognized the power of the Romanov dynasty in the vast territory of the Russian Empire. Today, the truth about the uprising Pugacheva is almost impossible, since in 1775 in Russia banned all mention even the name of Pugachev, but some facts still reached our time.

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"Classified»
The leader of one of the largest peasant wars Emelyan Pugachev was born around 1740, about 110 years after another famous rebel - Stepan Razin, and even in the same small village Zimoveyskaya (now Volgograd region, village Pugachёvskaya). This adventurous, brave man has always sought to stand out from the Cossacks, and it is thanks to leadership inclinations, he poluchalos.On participated in the Seven Years War, and the Russian-Turkish, bragged to associates saber allegedly donated by Peter I, I had never led a sedentary life and while posing as a wandering merchant from Constantinople. It is, however, the official version. But on his Emelianov Pugachev uprising of widely available primary sources it would be wrong to judge. Suffice it to say that all the materials on the case Pugachev over 144 years, until the end of the Romanov dynasty, were "classified».
Even Pushkin, while working on his "History of Pugachev", wrote that all materials of the case sealed. The information released by the government, he needed only 36 pages, and the great Russian poet, knew that the work is far from complete, and contains many contradictions. In his work, he even refers to the historians of the future, expressing the hope that the children will complement and correct his work.



Bandit or general
Troops Emelyan Pugachev and now often referred to as "gangs". But gangs tend to abut people of a certain type of employment and their actions are anti-social orientation. However, it is known that when Pugachev took the city, he greeted not only the common people, but also the rich merchants, and even the Church hierarchy. Pushkin wrote that in Penza Pugachev met with bread and salt, with icons and fell to her knees.

It is known that guns for Pugachev troops were cast in the factories of the Urals. Royal historians have argued that the workers joined Pugachev, staged a mutiny, but there is another view - Ural plants belonged to the Great Tartary, whose command of the troops and took over Pugachev.



Will Pugachev to the Russian throne
According to Romanov historians, Emelyan Pugachev appropriated the name of the Tsar Peter III, husband of Empress Catherine II, who died in the summer of 1762, proclaimed himself king and the tsar's manifesto published. However, Pushkin wrote that in Saransk, meeting Pugacheva, Archimandrite came out to him from the Gospel and the cross, and serving as a prayer called the Empress Catherine did not, and some Ustinov Petrovna. Some historians believe that this fact is a direct refutation of the official version of the claims Pugacheva on the Russian throne, but there are opinions and diametrically opposed.

In Europe we learned about the success of the uprising of the calf
Russian Government information about the success of the revolt Emelyan Pugachev concealed by foreign diplomats carefully. Not reported, and that the troops Pugacheva has reached the Volga. But Count Solms, who at that time was the German ambassador, he guessed it - in retail stores did not become a black game.



Patriot or an agent of a foreign intelligence
It is possible that the name "Pugachev" does not name, a nickname coined by the authorities (from the word "scared" or "pop gun"). This is a traditional propaganda technique of the time - cause negative associations with the names of undesirable persons. It was the same with the king Dmitri Ivanovich, who was awarded the nickname Otrepyev (from 'trash »).
But there is another version, according to which this Emelyan Pugachev - a man violent, the language of the intemperate, who had a habit of wandering and great intellect does not differ, in 1773 died at the Kazan prison and from prison under his name ran another who called himself Emperor Peter III. But his rebellion was successful because he was being dragged either Turkish, or Polish, or French mark. However, each country had its own interest in order to weaken Russia.
Pugachev escorted to Moscow Suvorov
Catherine knew very serious problems of a geopolitical nature, which could lead to an uprising. Therefore, its suppression of the Suvorov attracted. Not only that - the great commander personally escorted Pugachev in Moscow, where the executioner cut off his head. This allows you to understand the importance of a person Emelyan Pugachev, and realize that regard raised their uprising as a "riot" is not obtained. Pugachev Rebellion - Civil War, which determined at that stage of the future of the Empire.



Treasures Pugachev
According to rumors, the treasury Ataman were countless treasures Tatar and Bashkir khans. That's just up to now no horse blanket, embroidered with thousands of rubies and sapphires, nor a huge diamond that was allegedly at the chieftain, were found. This clade, which according to legend is stored in Emelkina cave near the village Nagaybakovo in the Urals, he was interested in Nikita Khrushchev and even sent an expedition to hunters. But the expedition was not crowned with success, as well as other similar.
In 1775 the village has become a Potemkin Zimoveyskaya river Yaik - the Ural River, Yaik Cossacks called Ural, Sich was liquidated, and the Volga Cossack army was disbanded. All the events of the war, at the behest of Catherine II, consigned to oblivion.

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Yemelyan Pugachev
Oil portrait by an unknown artist, 1773
I write from life in the portrait of Catherine II
The State Historical Museum, Moscow



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