Bulavin Rebellion

Don Cossack Rebellion of 1707–1708
Date	8 October 1707 – 7 July 1708
Location	Don Cossack Host, Russia
Result	Russian victory Death of Kondraty Bulavin; Rebellion crushed;
Belligerents
Russia	Don Cossack rebels
Commanders and leaders
Peter the Great	Kondraty Bulavin †

The Bulavin Rebellion or Astrakhan Revolt (Russian: Булавинское восстание, romanized: Bulavinskoye vosstaniye; Восстание Булавина, Vosstaniye Bulavina) was a war which took place in the years 1707 and 1708 between the Don Cossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democratically elected Ataman of the Don Cossacks, led the Cossack rebels. The conflict was triggered by a number of underlying tensions between the Moscow government under Peter I of Russia, the Cossacks, and Russian peasants fleeing from serfdom in Russia to gain freedom in the autonomous Don area. It started with the 1707 assassination of Prince Yury Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, the leader of Imperial army's punitive expedition 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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