PROBLEM OF SUPPRESSION OF PUGACHEV UPRISING IN 1773-1775 IN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN NOBILITY IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY
The article deals with the understanding of Pugachev’s uprising in 1773-1775 by the Russian nobility and social psychology of the nobility during the Catherine’s epoch in general. The points of view of the nobility are reconstructed, the causes of Pugachev’s uprising, the ways and principles of punitive measures applied to its participants are defined based on memoir and epistolary sources.
Keywords: uprising of E.I. Pugachev 1773-1775, Empress Catherine II, Russian nobility, perception,
conception, memoirs, social psychology.
Sergey S. Kocherezhko, a post-graduate student of Samara State University of Economics.