Teryushevsky uprising of 1743-1745 - the uprising that took place in the Teryushevsky volost of the Nizhny Novgorod district of the Nizhny Novgorod province .
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| date | 1743-1745 | ||
| A place | territory of the current republic of Mordovia , Nizhny Novgorod region | ||
| Total | victory of the Russian Empire | ||
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Content
Event
The beginning was the population’s protest against forced baptism (see Christianization of the Mordovians , New Baptists ), conducted by the bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Alatyrsky Dmitry (Sechenov) . On May 18, 1743, he arrived in the village of Sarley and, seeing a Erzya cemetery with wooden gravestones near the church, ordered him to be burned. Spontaneously gathered peasants attacked the missionaries. The bishop managed to hide in the cellar of a local priest. In a letter to the provincial chancellery, he demanded to send a military detachment, to arrest and give up under investigation the instigators, a cemetery near churches and sat down to ruin, to prohibit sacrifices .
After the bishop left, the atrocities of local officials, punitive teams and missionary detachments intensified. The estate manager arrested a man from 20 Erzyans and sent them, as rebels, to the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Chancellery. The bishop kept them under heavy guard in shackles and shoes, beat painfully, mortally; many of them were dipped in the font and connected and put on a cross on the same [1] . The tsarist government, instead of ending the violence, issued a decree according to which a new recruitment of Erzyans was to be carried out.
Fleeing the punishers, the peasants fled into the woods and organized rebel groups led by the newly baptized from the village of Bolshoy Seskino Nesmeyana Vasilyeva (nicknamed Krivoy). In a sacred grove near the village, he declared the population of his volost free from duties to landowners and authorities. Under his leadership, the rebels defeated the tsarist troops near the villages of Romaniha and Bortsovo .
Grenadier and dragoon units were sent to the volost under the command of Major General Streshnev and Prime Minister Junger. Junger’s detachment entered the village of Lapshihu. On November 26, 1743, a battle began, as a result of which poorly armed rebels were defeated: 74 Erzyans were killed, 30 wounded, 130 people were taken prisoner.
Nesmeyan Vasiliev was sentenced to be burned, his associate, burmister of the village of Kleiha Pumras Semenov - to death. Empress Elizaveta Petrovna by decree of July 15, 1744 replaced the death penalty with eternal hard labor in Siberia. Other leaders and rebels (282 people) were severely punished. By mid-1745, the last outbreaks of the Teryushevsky uprising were suppressed.
Notes
- ↑ Documents and materials on the history of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1940, v. 2, p. 305
Literature
- Titov A.A. Teryushevsky rebellion // Russian Review. - 1893. - No. 8-10; Kotkov K.A. Rise of the Mordovians of the Teryushevsky volost 1743-1745 // Kotkov K.A., Werner S.P. Essays on the history of the Mordovian people of the XVIII century. - Saransk, 1943; Zakharkina A.G. Rise of the Mordovians of the Teryushevsky volost // Zap. MNIIALIE. - 1952. - Issue. 15; Mokshin N.F. Religious Beliefs of the Mordovians. - Saransk, 1998; Zevakin M.I. Teryushevskaya uprising. - Moscow, 1934; He is. Teryushevan revolt. - Moscow, 1935.
- Decree of the Synod to the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Chancellery of July 7, 1743 // State Archive of the Nizhny Novgorod Region F. 1. Op. 1. D.28, l. 79-79ob.
Source
- Encyclopedia of Mordovia , N.F. Mokshin.
- “Where did the land come from” Teryushevskaya: Education and resettlement of the Mordovians-Teryukhan “on the mountains” of Nizhny Novgorod. D.V. Karabelnikov (inaccessible link)
- S. M. Soloviev. History of Russia since ancient times. Book XI. 1740-1748. The twenty-first volume. Chapter one. Braunschweig last name