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under Yuri Dolgorukov to scout the Cossack regions for fugitive peasants. Despite the fact that the Cossacks harbored some resentment towards the peasants (for overpopulating their region and generally competing for local resources), more deplorable to them was the idea of Petrine agents roaming
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sitting in place of the true Tsar who was hidden away), or that he was indeed the rightful Tsar but was under the control of evil advisers whose destruction would liberate him, and that if given the freedom to act, he would repudiate all of his wicked reforms.
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to replace Peter. This blunder would condemn the rebellion's end goals to ambiguity and would let slip an immeasurable amount of support he might have mustered. Second, Bulavin did not coordinate his efforts with any other pre-existing Muscovite enemies, so
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in his youth. However, he was never a particularly great military commander, and throughout the rebellion that bears his name, he would forever fall short of becoming an undisputed leader. By 1704, he had risen to the status of
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was expanding territorially, and by this expansion was encroaching upon salt resource sites coveted by the Cossacks for preservation of their foods. This dispute over land was in one sense an economic issue, but the
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also regarded this as an intrusion upon their semi-autonomous political state. In general, the entire rural Russian atmosphere was in an agitated state, waiting for a catalyst of some kind.
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of the Don Cossacks, led the Cossack rebels. The conflict was triggered by a number of underlying tensions between the Moscow government under
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freely through their territory. They not only refused to give up the fugitive peasants, but on 8 October 1707 a small band of local
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Little is known about Bulavin personally, but he was born into a Cossack family and would have been old enough to remember
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to the Don area, by Don Cossacks under Bulavin's command. The end of the rebellion came with Bulavin's death in 1708.
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The rebellion suffered from a number of weaknesses. For one, despite all of his rallying, Bulavin never offered a
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Bulavin's rally cries were simple: the goal was to move against Moscow and destroy the evil influences on the
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headed by Kondraty Bulavin ambushed and murdered Dolgorukov and his men in the village of Shulgin on the
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In response to the uprising, Peter tightened his grip on the Cossack states, causing some 2000 under
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and the revolt of the late 17th century. He developed some combat experience fighting the
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masses saw his reforms as an affront to their traditional way of life and to their
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in the 18th century were met with widespread discontent. The pious, deeply
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The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia
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As mentioned, the Bulavin Rebellion bore striking similarities to
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In response to the constraints and fears of living in Peter's
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area. It started with the 1707 assassination of Prince
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A number of social grievances were prevalent in the
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Index

Kondraty Bulavin
Don Cossack Host
Russia
Kondraty Bulavin
Russia
Don Cossack
Peter the Great
Kondraty Bulavin

a series
Cossacks
"Zaporozhian Cossacks write to the Sultan of Turkey" by Ilya Repin (1844–1930)
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Cossack hosts
Amur
Astrakhan
Azov
Baikal
Black Sea
Buh
Caucasus
Danube
Don
Free
Greben
Kuban
Orenburg
Red
Semirechye
Siberian

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