In the previous part ("Suvorov versus Pugachev"), I presented to the reader a lot of facts that allow us to conclude that the official (German version) of history is desperately lying to us about this important event. I strongly recommend that you read the first part in order to fully understand what will be presented in this article.
In search of an answer to what it really was (I did not consider the option of a peasant war at all - may the adherents of official history forgive me, but this is complete nonsense!), I studied all the materials available on the Internet. The most complete and consistent with my own conclusions, I consider the material of the historian D. Belousov, according to which this article was prepared.
Map of 1706 from Encyclopedia Britannica (European Muscovy, top left).
Geography and administration
Perhaps I will not reveal to the reader the secret that in the 18th century, on European maps, two neighboring powers were designated: Muscovy European (with the capital in St. Petersburg) and Moscow Tartary (one of the parts of Great Tartary that remained after the collapse of the empire: Mongul and Tartarus. Fell into "tartarars"., With the capital in Tobolsk).
On old maps of the 18th century, year after year, their common border shifts westward from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. It can be assumed that Moscow Tartary, in alliance with another fragment of the Great Empire - Turkey (Khanate), tried to return the lost territories (each one of its own). There was a border war with European Muscovy.
An enlarged fragment of a 1707 map by Peter Van Der A - the border is still far to the west.
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- The border passed along the Yaik (Ural) and Ob rivers. This version is supported by the fact that before 1790, exiles were sent either to Solovki or to remote villages on the left bank of the Ob, and not to Siberia. And only after the victory over the troops of "Pugachev", they began to be exiled to remote Siberian cities.
Modern map from the textbook - pay attention to the border of the Russian Empire.
- In 1708, there were 8 provinces in European Muscovy, in 1719 there were already 11, and after the defeat of "Pugachev", in 1776 - as many as 40! They did not "multiply" by division! Such an explosive growth is possible only through territorial acquisitions (conquests from Moscow Tartary and the Ottoman Empire).
- As we all know from the official history, the governor at one time canceled Peter the Great, carrying out an administrative reform. However, Catherine II in 1775, for some reason, issues a decree abolishing the voivodeships. So they are 60 years old as not (in Muscovy)! But in the remaining parts of Tartary, no one canceled them, perhaps therefore, it was necessary to duplicate by decree this norm for the newly conquered territories.
A portrait of Pugachev considered to be in his lifetime.
Who is who?
To our great regret, we do not know the name of the last Khan of Moscow Tartary. And it makes no sense to guess about it. The wife of "Pugachev", Ustinya Petrovna, during the interrogation indicated the place of storage in their house, several chests with documents. For whom a special expedition was urgently sent. Archive chests were found and safely disappeared for history forever!
As for the personality of the military leader himself - "Pugachev", there are two versions:
1) Emelyan Ivanovich Izmogulov from the clan of Tamurbek Khan (Tamerlane), one of the princes of the Hulaguid Khanate
Portrait of Pugachev dressed in a triangle hat, by Nabgolts.
2) The son of Peter III, who was untimely killed (by his wife, Catherine II) (for more details, read "The murder of Peter the Great's grandson - the tragedy of Russia") - Pyotr Petrovich (these are the initials stamped on the seal of the military collegium of "Pugachev"), taken out according to one of versions Menshikov with him in the city of Berezovo (located on the left bank of the Ob - opposite the city of Tobolsk, standing on the right bank) and transferred to the education of the Khan of Moscow Tartary.
Pugachev's trial, painting by Perov.
In any case, he was of a royal family and a high position, he certainly did not resemble his prototype, found by the Romanov historians - the unlucky, thieving (such epithets were given by his fellow villagers) Cossack Emelka Pugachev from the village of Zimoveyskaya.
You can think whatever you want about the mental abilities of the lower ranks of the Russian class, but I think hardly anyone will argue that the Cossack circle will go to war for the gouging, marked only by drunkenness and a wild life. And this is unlikely to be greeted with bread and salt and bells ringing, merchants and clergy in the "captured" cities.
Cannons from the Ural factories of Moscow Tartaria.
But for a well-born and noble military leader, known for his victories (his talent as a commander was recognized by Suvorov himself!), It is not shameful to beat earthly bows and petitions, and to serve a healthy service in the Temple.
This is indirectly confirmed by the fact that both the real (Ustinya) and fictional (his prototype Sophia) wives with small children were imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress - until their death! And they were not released by Pavel the First (for more details read "Paul the First Killed"), who freed almost all those imprisoned by Catherine the Second after the death of Catherine the Second … Apparently, the secret of the personality of "Pugachev" was so terrible for the Romanovs that even innocent children were not released …
War
Judging by indirect data, border clashes along the Yaik River (Ural) began much earlier than the officially recognized large-scale actions of 1773. The first Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774 was apparently at first the main front for the Romanovs. In the southeast of Muscovy, skirmishes began with the detachments of Independent Tartary, aimed (at the beginning) at rejecting the primordial Cossack (“Cossacks of Tartaria” appear on the maps) lands. Judging by the displacement of the borders, things were going quite successfully and then there was an appeal of the Cossacks to "Pugachev", urging them to go to Moscow …
It was then that his victorious campaign across the Volga region began. It is described in some detail and it is hardly worth supplementing it (although much there was later edited). It was military successes that forced Catherine to transfer this border war to the category of the main, and then completely vital for Muscovy (to protect the city, they even brought 7 regiments to Moscow).
Silver ruble & quot; Pugachev & quot; (note the initials P, after Peter).
- After the signing of the Kuchuk-Kainardzhirsky peace with the Ottoman Empire (considered a separate treaty), Muscovy was able to transfer all its military forces to the "Pugachev" front. In total, the participants in those events mention 80 thousand soldiers and Cossacks, against 25-40 thousand at "Pugachev".
- It is interesting that the "Pugachevites" used the medal of the times of Elizabeth Petrovna "To the winner over the Prussians" - referring to the huge number of German and Prussian officers in the Romanov army (Prussians of Holstein-Gottorp).
The same medal.
- The prescription for the military set of "Pugachev" (as well as the original of "Walking across the Three Seas" by Afanasy Nikitin), were written in Arabic - which was one of the four official languages of Great Tartary.
- Voltaire wrote that it was not England that financed Pugachev, but the King of China (Chinese Tartaria - Manchuria), or the King of Persia (Independent Tartaria) or the Great Mogul.
- Suvorov personally convoyed the captured "Pugachev" to Moscow: a tribute / fear of losing a valuable prisoner, or both?
Suvorov accompanies Pugachev.
“After many hours of torture,“Pugachev”agreed to tell everything, and Pyotr Panin, who was in charge of the interrogation, immediately removed everyone from the interrogation room and was left alone with him. An extensive transcript of the interrogation, written by Panin personally, according to eyewitnesses, was burned by Catherine immediately after reading it. And most of the materials of the investigation are still classified as "secret" (and it is very interesting to know why?).
I believe that with the Pugachev Uprising, the Romanov historians hid the war between two states: Muscovy (European) and Moscow Tartary, which were once part of the united empire of Great Tartary.
PS Prince Trubetskoy said: “there was no Mongol-Tatar yoke, but there was a German-Roman one” and it lasted the same 300 years.”As soon as the Romanovs ascended the throne in 1613, and already in 1617 they began to change the first Russian chronographs But only 4 years have passed, and since the end of the 17th century German historians invited by the Romanovs began to work actively.
Execution of Pugachev.
