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Click through below to find rebellions, revolutions, riots, and more in 18th century Tsarist Russia. I hope you enjoy and learn something new!

18th Century
Bashkir Uprising (1704-1711)
  • Date: Summer 1704 - 1711
  • Location: (Mostly) Bashkortostan (Bashkiria), Russia
  • Groups Uprising: Bashkir rebels
  • Number of People: Unknown
  • Leaders: Dyume Ishkyev, Aldar Isyangildin, Iman Batyr, Kusyum Tyulekyev, Khazi Akkuskarov, Urakay Yuldashbaev
  • Reason(s): More percevied attempts at forced Christinization (New taxes on mosques, people who went into a house of worship, etc, new mosques had to be built in the same style as Christian churches), demands for horses and soldiers to fight in the Great Northern War
  • Result: Suppression with concessions (confirmation of patrimonial rights, cancellation of new taxes, condemnation of tyranny/violence from local authorities, etc)
Bulavin Rebellion (Astrakhan Revolt)
  • Date: October 8th, 1707 – July 7th, 1708
  • Location: Don Cossack Host, Russia
  • Groups Uprising: Don Cossack Rebels
  • Number of People: Unknown
  • Leaders: Kondraty Bulavin
  • Reason(s): Discontent over Peter the Great's westernizing-reforms (the people were traditional and pious) and his new police state, Cossacks angered by Peter's expansions encroaching on their land (for both economic and political reasons), Cossack refusal to turn over run away serfs and the murder of Peter's bounty hunters
  • Result: Rebellion suppressed, Peter tightened his grip on the Cossacks
Bashkir Rebellion of 1735–1740
  • Date: July 1735 – 1740
  • Location: (Mostly) Bashkortostan (Bashkiria), Russia
  • Groups Uprising: Bashkir Rebels
  • Number of People: Several Tens of Thousands
  • Leaders: Karasakal (Among others)
  • Reason(s): Construction of a Russian fort on the Aral Sea, which would force them to cross through Bashkir territory
  • Result: Rebellion suppressed, delayment of Russian conquest of Central Asia
Plague Riot
  • Date: September 1771
  • Location: Moscow, Russia
  • Groups Uprising: Peasants, common townspeople
  • Number of People: Unknown
  • Leaders: Unknown (or N/A)
  • Reason(s): Arrival of the black death, causing forced quarantines, destruction of contaminated property, fear, and more, which paralyzed the economy and lead to food shortages. Archbishop Ambrosius tried to stop people from gathering at an icon (which they believed would help them), leading to the main bout of rioting from September 15th-17th. The riots were also caused by continous poverty, war, and the terrible living conditions of most people
  • Result: Murder of Archbishop Ambrosius (during riot), suppression of the riot and the persecution of those involved, concessions made (including but not limited to providing work and food)
Pugachev's Rebellion
  • Date: 1773-1775
  • Location: Russia
  • Groups Uprising: Cossacks, Old Believers, Russian serfs, non-Russian peoples, Indigenous peoples
  • Number of People: 15,000-25,000 (Depending on the year)
  • Leaders: Yemelyan Pugachev, Salawat Yulayev
  • Reason(s): Oppression and dire living conditions of the serfs, natural disasters, changes to the church by rulers
  • Result: Rebellion suppressed (including the execution of Pugachev), expansion of serfdom by Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great)
Kościuszko Uprising (Polish Uprising of 1794)
  • Date: March 24th - November 16th, 1794
  • Location: Polish-Lithuania, Prussian Partition (Greater Poland and Kuyavia)
  • Groups Uprising: Kościuszko Rebels
  • Number of People: Unknown
  • Leaders: Tadeusz Kościuszko
  • Reason(s): Anger over the surrender of King Stanisław II August (Or Stanislaus II Augustus) and the subsequent Second Partition of Poland
  • Result: Rebellion suppressed (by Russia, Prussia, and the Holy Roman Empire), Third Partition of Poland (ending the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth)