Ataman Bulavin Biography

The letter of the Belgorod governor D. The son of the Ataman of the village of Trekhizbyanskaya, Kondraty Bulavin participated in campaigns in the Crimea and the Kuban, in the capture of Azov in the year. He was elected by a camp ataman, then by the chieftain of the Bakhmut salt fishing. In the year he came into conflict with the commander of the Izyum Slobodsky regiment F. Shidlovsky, who sought to capture Cossack salt crafts.

Bulavin expelled the Izuyums from the Bakhmut salvar, who arrived to analyze this case arrested, and then, by decision of the military circle, sent him to Voronezh. Defending Cossack rights, he decided to burn salvarny. In the year, Bulavin organized the performance of the “Spolokh” of the Verkhnedon Cossacks against the detachment of Prince Yu. Dolgorukov, who arrived by the royal decree of the detachment to identify and capture “newcomers” and fugitive people who did not live on the Don for twenty years.

In the Shulginsky town, Dolgorukov’s detachment was defeated by Cossacks, led by Bulavin. The military ataman Lukyan Maksimov, gathering large forces, put up a rupture of a flash and defeated the Bulavans near the Klota town. The leader of the rebels, having been defeated, took refuge in the Zaporizhzhya Sich. From here he sent “lovely” letters, urging him to struggle with “evil people” boyars and foreigners.

The rebellious chieftain managed to establish ties with the Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Terek Cossacks and the Old Believers. The main requirement of the rebels was the preservation of the rights and liberties of Cossacks, "so that we had a Donskoy in our army as before, as under our grandfathers and our fathers." In March, Bulavin reappeared on the Don at the head of the detachment from man.

He settled in the Pristan town on the Khoper River, where Cossacks and “hunting people” flocked from all sides. From here, Bulavin moved to Cherkassk, on April 9, on the Liskovatka River, he defeated the supporters of the chieftain Maximov and entered Cherkassk. After the election in May, the military chieftain Bulavin sent a loyal message to Peter I with the hope of the “hopeless” life of the Donets with the tsar and with a request to suspend the parcel of regular troops against the rebels.

But a punitive detachment under the command of Prince V. Dolgorukov’s dear brother, who was killed by the Cossacks by the Cossacks, sent large Cossack detachments to Sloboda Ukraine and the Volga, where the rebels besieged the Saratov and Tsaritsyn and Tsaritsyn were already sent. The attempt of the Bulavans to take the fortress of Azov failed.

The group of elders, led by Ilya Zershchikov, managed to surround the Ataman house, where there were 50 Bulavans, and take it by storm. Bulavin was killed during the battle. It was officially announced that the leader of the uprising, seeing the hopelessness of his position, shot himself. With his death, the uprising did not end. Government troops managed to repay his last foci of the year.

Bulavin became the last leader of the purely Cossack movement, who advocated the inviolability of the current way of life and against the intervention of the central authorities in the cases of the Cossacks. The movement protruded under the slogans of the preservation of the old faith, the Cossacks-Raskolniki constituted a significant part of the rebels. One of the Bulavinsky associates, Ataman I.

Nekrasov, managed to take it to the Kuban, then not part of Russia, two thousand old-class Cossacks with families. The Nekrasovites followed the Testament "not to submit" and for a long time fought on the side of Turkey against the Russian army.