Frol Timofeevich Razin

Background

Frol Timofeevich Razin was born in 1630 in Volgograd Oblast, Russian Federation. He was the younger brother of Stepan Timofeyevich Razin.

Career

Frol Timofeevich Razin was on a Cossack service in the Don Army. Active participant in the Peasant War of 1670-1671. In the summer of 1670 on the instructions of S.T. Razin headed with a rebel detachment of 100 people from the city of Saratov to the River Don, where within a month he gathered about 2,000 Cossacks. Razin was faced with the task of ending the economic blockade of the Don and raising the peasants of Sloboda Ukraine to revolt. Razin’s plans included initially seizing the city of Korotoyak to seize supplies and send them to the upper Cossack towns, as well as reprisals against the administration. On September 27, 1670, in a battle under Korotoyak, Razin was defeated by the tsarist troops under the leadership of voivod G.G. Romodanovsky and retreated to the Don.

Connections

Brother:

Stepan Timofeevich Razin