Pugachev's Rebellion (Russian: Восстание Пугачёва, romanized: Vosstaniye Pugachyova; also called the Peasants' War 1773–1775 or Cossack Rebellion) of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the …

The city was seized (and largely destroyed) during Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775), but was later rebuilt during the reign of Catherine the Great. In the following centuries, Kazan grew to become a major industrial, cultural and religious centre of Russia.

Kazan was seized in a revolt of 1773–74, and much of the city was burned to the ground; Catherine II the Great rebuilt it on a gridiron pattern. The Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul dates from the 18th century.

Emelian Pugachev (1742 – 1775), a Cossack from the Don region (in contemporary Ukraine), led what would be the last — and arguably the most explosive — of the great Cossack rebellions that plagued the Russian state during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The Battle of Kazan (1774) was a major battle during Pugachev's Rebellion. It took place on 12–15 July 1774 in Kazan, Russia, and the surrounding area. The first stage began in the morning of 12 July, when rebels under Yemelyan Pugachev defeated government troops and besieged them in the Kazan Kremlin.

Dec 9, 2024 · The rebellion began in 1773, driven by widespread discontent among peasants, Cossacks, and serfs. They were fed up with oppressive taxes , forced labor, and harsh treatment. Pugachev, claiming to be the deceased Tsar Peter III, promised freedom and land to …

At the beginning of 1773, Pugachev’s army besieged Orenburg, the major population center on the Volga River in southern Russia. In October 1773 when news of the rebel-lion reached Saint Petersburg, Catherine appointed Major General Vasily …

Though the Russian Empire had stretched eastward by 1773 - the year that Yemelyan Pugachev's uprising against local authorities gathered steam - Ufa remained a provincial city in southern Russia.

He defeated Pugachev at Tatishchevo, west of Orenburg, in the spring of 1774, but the rebel leader then advanced on Kazan, burning the city to the ground. Then, having crossed the Volga, he captured Saratov and, laying siege to Tsaritsyn, prepared to advance on Moscow.

1700s - Peter the Great visited Kazan in the early 1700s, and, at his direction, the city became involved in shipbuilding for Peter’s Caspian fleet. 1774 - Kazan was destroyed during the Pugachev rebellion.