Uprising of Bolotnikov

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Uprising of Bolotnikov
Part of Time of Troubles
Ernest Lissner. The beginning of the battle of Bolotnikov's troops with the tsar's troops near the village of Nizhniye Kotly near Moscow
Date 1606–1607 Location Wild Field, the southern part of Central Russia Result Suppression of rebellion
Belligerents
Russian Kingdom	Rebels (supporters of False Dmitry): Don Cossacks Volga Cossacks Terek Cossacks Ukrainian Cossacks Service People Posad People Peasants (serfs and black-ploughing) Foreign mercenaries (Polish-Lithuanian and German)
Commanders and leaders
Vasily IV Shuisky Fedor Mstislavsky Yuri Trubetskoy Ivan Vorotynsky Ivan Shuisky Dmitry Shuisky Artemy Izmailov Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky Mikhail Shein From the end of 1606: Philip (Istoma) Pashkov  † Grigory Sunbulov Prokopy Lyapunov	Ivan Bolotnikov  † Grigory Shakhovskoy   Andrey Telyatevsky   Ilya Korovin (Ileika Muromets, False Peter) † Yuri Bezzubtsev   Until the end of 1606: Philip (Istoma) Pashkov Grigory Sunbulov Prokopy Lyapunov
Strength
From 50–60 to 100 thousand or more people[1]	Up to 25–30 thousand people[1]

The Uprising of Bolotnikov,^[1] in Russian historiography called the Peasant War under the Leadership of Ivan Bolotnikov (Peasant Uprising),^[2][3] was a major peasant, Cossack, and noble uprising of 1606–1607 led by Ivan Bolotnikov and several other leaders. At the time of the highest point of the uprising (the Siege of Moscow in 1606), more than 70 cities in the south and center of Russia were under the control of the rebels.