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Event war

Pugachev's Rebellion

1773 CE – 1775 CE

The largest peasant revolt in Russian history before 1917. Cossack leader Pugachev, claiming to be the murdered Tsar Peter III, rallied serfs and minorities across the Urals before being captured…

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