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Events on Saturday 21 January 1775 1
1742 – 1775Yemelyan Pugachev (1742-1775)Died 21 January 1775, aged 33Yemelyan Pugachev led a massive Cossack and peasant uprising against Catherine the Great's rule, claiming to be the deposed Tsar Peter III. After his rebellion was crushed, he was captured, brought to Moscow, and publicly executed. The revolt remains the largest peasant uprising in Russian imperial history.