The third book completes the famous historical epic. The peasant war of 1773–1775 is gradually fading away, the rebel troops are suffering one defeat after another, the royal entourage is triumphant, the executioner’s ax is already raised over Pugachev’s head... The novel “Emelyan Pugachev”, based on many years of studying archival documents, was a major contribution to the development of Soviet historical genre and was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946.