Deaths on January 21

Yemelyan Pugachev

Died on January 21, 1775

Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1742)

Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (Russian: Емелья́н Ива́нович Пугачёв; c. 1742 – 21 January [O.S. 10 January] 1775) was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. Pugachev claimed to be Catherine's late husband, Emperor Peter III.

Alexander Pushkin wrote a notable history of the rebellion, The History of Pugachev, and recounted the events of the uprising in his novel The Captain's Daughter (1836).

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Deaths on January 21

Yemelyan Pugachev

Died on January 21, 1775

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