Emelyan Pugachev, Emelya.

A rogue, a fugitive, a scoundrel, a sly one, a dissenter, but he can be compassionate and merciful. He is quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and has a keen business acumen and resourcefulness. He is a good card player, enjoys drinking, and enjoys carousing at Cossack feasts. Yemelyan Pugachev is dark and tall, with hair like a raven's feather, a beard as black as pitch, and dark eyes that sparkle with a cunning gleam. He has a white birthmark on his left temple and scars on his chest from an illness known as black disease. He was illiterate. In 1759, he enlisted as a Cossack and fought in the Seven Years' War. In 1764, he was stationed in Poland with his regiment and fought in the Russo-Turkish War. In 1770, he received the rank of ensign.
He returned to the Don due to illness. At the end of 1771, Pugachev, evading military service, fled to the Terek River, where he lived among the Terek Cossacks, beyond the Kuban with the Nekrasov Cossacks, in Poland, among the Old Believers near Chernigov, Gomel, and on the Irgiz River. He was arrested several times, but managed to escape. In May 1773, he escaped from a Kazan prison to the Yaik River (Ural).