A Cossack's Lie Became Russia's Bloodiest Uprising
18th Century Russia

A Cossack's Lie Became Russia's Bloodiest Uprising

A forged document, delivered to the wrong man, sparked the bloodiest peasant uprising in Russian history.

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Russia18th CenturyPeasant RebellionsCatherine the GreatCossacksSerfdomImperial RussiaImpostersYemelyan Pugachev

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