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 [ru], 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.