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Yemelyan Pugachev

1742 - 1775

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Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (also spelled Pugachyov; Russian: Емельян Иванович Пугачёв; c. 1742 – 21 January [O.S. 10 January] 1775) was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, a major popular uprising in the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great. The son of a Don Cossack landowner, Pugachev served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Seven Years' War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. In 1770 he deserted the Russian military and spent years as a fugitive, gaining popularity among the peasants, Cossacks and Old Believers against a backdrop of intensified unrest. In 1773, he initiated open revolt against Catherine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yemelyan Pugachev is the 57th most popular social activist (down from 49th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Russia (up from 149th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Social Activist.

Yemelyan Pugachev was a Russian peasant who led a rebellion against Catherine the Great in 1773. Pugachev claimed to be Peter III, who had been assassinated in 1762, and that he had returned to Russia to claim the throne.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yemelyan Pugachev ranks 57 out of 840. Before him are Sakamoto Ryōma, Pheidippides, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Hassan al-Banna, Harriet Tubman, and Witold Pilecki. After him are Frantz Fanon, Dominique Pire, Syed Ahmad Khan, Kim Hyong-jik, Gerald Durrell, and Carl von Ossietzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Yemelyan Pugachev ranks 4. Before him are Pope Pius VII, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. After him are Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, James Wilson, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Nicolas Leblanc, David Bushnell, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. Among people deceased in 1775, Yemelyan Pugachev ranks 1. After him are Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Empress Xiaoyichun, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Paul of the Cross, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Zahir al-Umar, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Richard Montgomery, John Baskerville, and Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yemelyan Pugachev ranks 147 out of 3,761. Before him are Pyotr Bagration (1765), Walther Funk (1890), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Witold Pilecki (1901), and Dmitry Donskoy (1350). After him are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Alexander Glazunov (1865), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Yemelyan Pugachev ranks 3. Before him are Peter Kropotkin (1842), and Witold Pilecki (1901). After him are Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexei Navalny (1976), Stenka Razin (1630), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Ales Bialiatski (1962).

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