Comments on: 1775: Yemelyan Pugachev http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » 1764: Lt. Vasily Mirovich, for attempting to topple Catherine the Great http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-11539 ExecutedToday.com » 1764: Lt. Vasily Mirovich, for attempting to topple Catherine the Great Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:17:35 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-11539 [...] the age’s other great enlightened despot, Frederick the Great, Catherine had to rule. She had not the luxury to dispense with statecraft’s cruel [...] [...] the age’s other great enlightened despot, Frederick the Great, Catherine had to rule. She had not the luxury to dispense with statecraft’s cruel [...]

]]> By: wbw http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-401 wbw Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:38:16 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-401 Good post, Headsman. Great addition, Dmitri: a humane woman the Russian Minerva was!:) Here is my contribution. The Empress was rather reluctant to be reminded of the unfortunate uprising. In 1775, five days after the execution, she ordered to rename some memory-disturbing geographical spots: the river Yaik henceforth borne the name Ural and the town of Yaitsk became known as Uralsk. Good post, Headsman. Great addition, Dmitri: a humane woman the Russian Minerva was!:)

Here is my contribution. The Empress was rather reluctant to be reminded of the unfortunate uprising. In 1775, five days after the execution, she ordered to rename some memory-disturbing geographical spots: the river Yaik henceforth borne the name Ural and the town of Yaitsk became known as Uralsk.

]]> By: Headsman http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-400 Headsman Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:37:14 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-400 Good stuff as usual, Dmitri -- thanks. I should have done a search on your blog in the first place. Good stuff as usual, Dmitri — thanks. I should have done a search on your blog in the first place.

]]> By: Dmitri Minaev http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-399 Dmitri Minaev Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:36:08 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/10/1775-yemelyan-pugachev/#comment-399 On <a href="http://minaev.blogspot.com/2007/11/november-15-in-russian-history.html" rel="nofollow">15 November</a>, I wrote about Pugachev: "...Later, in Moscow, Pugachev and some of his friends, Perfilyev, Shigayev, Podurov and Tornov, were sentenced to death. He was to be quartered, decapitated and his remains were to be burned. The empress Catherine secretly ordered the executor to decapitate Pugachev and other rebels before the quartering to decrease their suffering." On 15 November, I wrote about Pugachev: “…Later, in Moscow, Pugachev and some of his friends, Perfilyev, Shigayev, Podurov and Tornov, were sentenced to death. He was to be quartered, decapitated and his remains were to be burned. The empress Catherine secretly ordered the executor to decapitate Pugachev and other rebels before the quartering to decrease their suffering.”

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