Pugachov, Yemelyan Ivanovich

An illiterate Don Cossack, Pugachov fought in the Russian Army in the final battles of the Seven Years' War (1756 - 63), in Russia's campaign in Poland (1764), and in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 - 74. Following the siege and conquest of Bendery (1769 - 70), however, he returned