Yemelyan Pugachev

Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (Russian:Емелья́н Ива́нович Пугачёв) (c. 1742 – 21 January [O.S. January 10] 1775) was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II. Alexander Pushkin wrote a notable history of the rebellion, The History of Pugachev, and he recounted some of the events in his novel The Captain's Daughter (1836).