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Topic: Emelyan Pugachov


  
  Yemelyan Pugachev Summary
The Russian Cossack soldier Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (1742-1775) led the peasant rebellion in Russia in 1773-1775.
Emelyan Pugachev, a Don Cossack, was born in the village of Zimoveiskaya.
The main course of his life was influenced initially by the fact that, as a Don Cossack, he was subject, when of age, to duty in the Russian army.
www.bookrags.com /Yemelyan_Pugachev   (2100 words)

  
 La Tempesta (1958) - Overview - MSN Movies
A Russian ensign named Peter Griniev (Geoffrey Horne), banished by Catherine (Viveca Lindfors) to a distant outpost, saves the life of Pugachov (Van Heflin), leader of a peasant uprising.
Allowed to escape, Griniev tries to warn of the Pugachov's plans, but the Russian generals refuse to listen.
When Griniev attempts to remove Pugachov's daughter (Silvano Mangano) from...
entertainment.msn.com /Movies/movie.aspx?m=172130&stab=2   (95 words)

  
 Yemelyan Pugachev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Emelyan Pugachov Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (Russian: &1045;&1084;&1077;&1083;&1100;&1103;&769;&1085; &1048;&1074;&1072;&769;&1085;&1086;&1074;&1080;&1095; &1055;&1091;&1075;&1072;&1095;&1105;&1074;), born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II.
Many fighters deserted including one general who left the battle and took his entire unit with him.
Author's translation) Pugachov Administering Justice to the Population.
yemelyan-pugachev.iqnaut.net   (1487 words)

  
 Timelines - This Day in Alternate History
Event Description: The Russians under General Emelyan Pugachev defeat the Austrian army at Krakow.
Event Description: A British relief force under General Sir Barry St. Leger is crushed by the Russian Cossacks under Count Emelyan Pugachev.
Event Description: The British are forced to withdraw to New York, in order to defend it from the immediate menace presented by the Imperial Russian Army.
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 Timelines - This Day in Alternate History
The Russians under General Emelyan Pugachev defeat the Austrian army at Krakow.
A British relief force under General Sir Barry St. Leger is crushed by the Russian Cossacks under Count Emelyan Pugachev.
The British are forced to withdraw to New York, in order to defend it from the immediate menace presented by the Imperial Russian Army.
www.othertimelines.com /testing/editTimeline.php?timelineID=783   (1554 words)

  
 Russia, Government, Political History - JRL 3-21-05
The system meant as a new stage in world history quickly became Russified, and its architects began searching for antecedents in Russia's past.
The 1917 Revolution was variously portrayed as a descendent of the Cossack rebellions of Stepan Razin in the 17th century and Emelyan Pugachev in the 18th century, or even of the Decembrist plot hatched by high-born officers in 1825.
The deep conservatism of Russian society and the lightning-fast changes it endured help explain one of the more ridiculous patterns of Russian politics: Each new Russian leader tends to reject and vilify his predecessor and promise a clean break, a renewal or a purification.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/9097-4.cfm   (1045 words)

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