This man was initially successful in his siege of Orenburg, defeating the force of General Kara, but was forced to retreat by Colonel Michelson in the wake of the Battle of Kazan.
This man was initially successful in his siege of Orenburg, defeating the force of General Kara, but was forced to retreat by Colonel Michelson in the wake of the Battle of Kazan. In his signature propaganda, he fashioned himself as the successor to Kondraty Bulavin and Stenka Razin, attracting the support of Old Believers, Bashkirs, Tatars, and Ural mine workers. He proclaimed himself Peter III and launched the Country War beginning in ►1773. FTP, name this Cossack who led a serf rebellion against Catherine the Great.
This man was initially successful in his siege of Orenburg, defeating the force of General Kara, but was forced to retreat by Colonel Michelson in the wake of the Battle of Kazan.
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev