With the hardships due to several wars, fatal disease spread in Moscow. Diseases formed decentralization among common people. In 1773, Emilian Pugachev, who was the military general of Kizak tribe who had complains about the villenage claimed himself as same as Peter III who died and established a revolt. It was the biggest revolt which was existed before the revolution in 1917 and it was also a numerous protest against the villenage. This influence extended to all Russia regions and farmers prepared to celebrate Pugachev, which looked like a dangerous situation. Many cities were dominated and enemy armies gained more power to surround the Russia. The revolt started from Ural mountain range but it rapidly spread to regions in North-east and armies of Pugachev prepared to attack Moscow in April, 1774. After Catherine the Great heard about the news, she halted the war against Ottoman empires and resisted armies of Pugachev by supporting the large amount of soldiers. As a result, they could attack the enemies partially in April, 1774 and also made the enemies retreat to Ural. However, as Tsar and Mari tribes tried to attack again by combing the military with the Bashkir cavalry, the government soldiers joined in the battle and had a big battle between them. Due to this incidence, thousands of enemy soldiers died and they lose the battle. Also, Bashkir cavalry ran away to Ural boundaries region. This revolt revealed a gap between the philosophy of enlightenment which Catherine the Great believed and the reality of Russia. After Pugachev lose the battle and captured, he was killed in 1775. From this event, common people realized that Catherine the Great became a symbol of fear rather than compassion and she would make their life restricted without any freedom.

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