Peasant uprising or war?
We all know perfectly well the version of the official history about the events of the past years, called the uprising of peasants and Cossacks led by Yemelyan Pugachev. In this article, I invite you to familiarize yourself with another version based on the New Chronology.
So, at the end of the 18th century, the last decisive battle took place between Western Europe and Romanov Russia, on the one hand, and the last fragment of the Russian-Ardyn Empire, the Tobolsk Siberian state, on the other. It was also the last major breakthrough in world history that consolidated the Romanovs' power over much of the former great Russian empire. At the suggestion of the victors, the Romanov historians distorted all available sources, presenting this major war as the suppression of a peasant uprising.
Traditional version
As well as the uprising of Stepan Razin, the war with Pugachev cannot be judged from the primary sources. Until the end of the reign of the Romanovs, materials on the case of Emelyan Pugachev were a state secret. When A. S. Pushkin worked on his "History of Pugachev", he was faced with the fact that the case was sealed. Pushkin wrote that he managed to collect all the information that was made public by the government and mentions of foreign writers that seemed to him reliable. These materials were enough for a fairly modest job, only 36 pages.
Pushkin understood that his work was far from complete. There are lines in The History of Pugachev where he turns to future historians and expresses the hope that someday the case will be made public and his work will be supplemented and corrected. Even such a well-known person in Russia as A. Pushkin did not manage to get acquainted with the documents about the so-called. the Pugachev riot. Hiding the originals away from prying eyes, the Romanovs, as usual, composed their own version of the history of those events. But this story, like many other fictions of Romanov historians, contains many contradictions.
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First controversy
Until now, the troops of Emelyan Pugachev are usually called gangs. But, as a rule, a certain category of people adjoins the gangs. When Pugachev captured cities, he was joyfully greeted by the entire population: ordinary people, merchants and even church hierarchs. As Pushkin wrote, local residents of Penza greeted Pugachev with bread and icons, falling on their knees in front of him.
It is reliably known that the guns for the Pugachev troops were cast at the Ural factories. Romanov historians claim that workers in the Ural factories rebelled and joined the illegal uprising. But, most likely, the Ural factories originally belonged to Great Tartary, whose troops were commanded by Pugachev.
The second contradiction
It is believed that Pugachev illegally proclaimed himself king, and when he entered the cities, he published royal manifestos there. Romanov historians claim that he took the name of the wife of Empress Catherine II, Tsar Peter III, who died in July 1762. But Pushkin writes that when Pugachev entered Saransk on July 22, he was met by ordinary people, the clergy and merchants, and the archimandrite came out to him with the cross and the Gospel. Then a prayer service was served, at which Empress Ustinia Petrovna was mentioned. Those. there is evidence that the Saransk archimandrite called the empress not Catherine, but a completely different queen! This fact also refutes the assertion about Pugachev's claims to the throne.
Unfortunately, we do not know the real name of the ruler of Moscow Tartary, who reigned in Tobolsk, or the real name of his voivode. And the surname "Pugachev" is, most likely, a nickname invented by the Romanovs (from the words "scarecrow" or "scarecrow"). It was the same with Tsar Dmitry Ivanovich (he was given the nickname Otrepiev from the word "rabble"). This is a common technique for propagandists by invoking negative associations with the names of individuals disagreeable to the existing government.
The third contradiction
In the Romanov version of the suppression of the Pugachev revolt, the victory was relatively easy. The troops of Catherine II easily smashed the unorganized gangs. But even from this edited version it is clear that regular troops were sent against some gangs. Historian Yevgeny Petrovich Savelyev, in his book on the ancient history of the Cossacks, wrote that, apart from other troops, 14 Don regiments fought against Pugachev. Despite this opposition, Pugachev advanced rather successfully towards Moscow, which terrified Catherine. To raise the soldier's spirit, she herself wanted to stand at the head of the army, but those close to her were able to dissuade the empress. By this time, the war with Turkey ended, and Alexander Suvorov returned from the front, who became the commander of all the troops. Those. to fight with unorganized gangs was entrusted to the main military leader of the country,the greatest commander of that time! No, this was not a suppression of the riot, it was a real war with huge professional forces involved on both sides!
The fourth contradiction
And one more strange fact from the history of the war with Pugachev. The trial of Pugachev took place in Moscow in the throne room of the Kremlin Palace. If he really were a simple Cossack, impostor and an ordinary leader of a gang, would he really be tried in the famous throne room? It seems like no rank! But if in his person the Romanovs condemned their main enemy - Great Tartary and celebrated the victory over her, then the choice of the place for the trial becomes justified and even necessary.
Regardless of who stood trial under the fictitious nickname Pugachev, it was a trial of the remnants of the Russian-Ardyn Empire to the delight of the Romanovs and their Western European allies. The fact that the Romanovs fought with huge organized troops is also evidenced by the fact that historians cite. Only from the end of the 18th century (after the defeat of Pugachev) Siberia became a place of exile. For example, convicts began to be exiled to Tobolsk only in 1790. Before that, they were exiled to the Solovetsky Islands (Solovki). It would be logical to assume that only after breaking the resistance of Pugachev, the Romanovs first gained access to Siberia. And the United States only after defeating Pugachev entered the western half of the North American continent. This area was simply absent on the maps before. When dividing these lands, the Romanovs got only Alaska and then,probably because it was directly adjacent to Siberia. But it later had to be given to the United States for more than a symbolic amount.
In 1775, the Russian government banned any mention of Pugachev's name. Zimoveyskaya stanitsa (the birthplace of Pugachev and Stepan Razin) was renamed Potemkin, the Yaik River - into the Urals, and the Yaitskoye Cossacks henceforth became known as the Ural Cossacks. The Volga Cossack army was disbanded, and the Zaporozhye Sich was liquidated. By order of Catherine II, all the events of this war were consigned to oblivion …