Pugachev's Oak ( mhr, Пугачёв тумо, russian: Дуб Пугачёва) is a major tree in
Marii Chodra
The Mari Forest or Mariy Chodra ( Mari and russian: Марий Чодра) is a national park, located largely in Morkinsky, Zvenigovsky, and Volzhsky Districts of the Mari El Republic, Russia. The park has an area of and was established in 198 ...
national park,
Mari El Republic,
Russian Federation. It is estimated to date to about 1500, is in diameter, and high.
Legend says that after the defeat in the
battle of Kazan and retreat to the Mari forests, the rest of
Pugachev
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (russian: Емельян Иванович Пугачёв; c. 1742) was an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. Pugachev claimed to be Catherine ...
's troops stayed under the oak, and Pugachev personally watched the burning of
Kazan from this oak. However, there are doubts that the particular oak is the tree Pugachev's rebels stayed under, and some researchers consider that tree is estimated to date to about 1650 and at the time of Pugachev revolt it was an ordinary tree. Another major oak tree, estimated to date to about 1400 existed in the nearby fields until the 1940s, when it died and was sawed in the 1950s. It was possibly the original Pugachev's Oak.
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Individual oak trees
Environment of Mari El
Individual trees in Russia