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Pyotr "Have My Cake and Eat it Too" Yakovlev

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1. Two "It's Me, hi, I'm the Problem" Sailors
2. Pyotr "Have My Cake and Eat it Too" Yakovlev
3. Five "Wait, What Did We Do?" Guilty Sailors
4. Five "Should've Been Quieter" Carpenters
5. Foreign "Just Pretend We Aren't French" Subjects
6. "Rabble-Rousers-are-Us" from Nikolaev On Sunday August 10, 1796, the crowds at the market place in Nikolaev (Mykolaiv) yelled "ura!" and seized 6 carts of watermelon. 6 men were arrested: Korochkin, from the 90-gun Sozon, Stepan Efimov, who arrived on a cutter transporting officers from the brigantine Nikodim, Osip Baskakov, who came with officers from the frigate Nikon, a skipper named Koverin, a ship carpenter named Filip Kuz’min, and a garrison soldier named Yakov Yakovlev. Tales of their exploits would soon make their way to Kherson.
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1. Iosif "The Protege" Khorvat The lieutenant general is a key figure in this story. Ruler of Ekaterinoslav Governorate, Iosif Ivanovich assists Mordvinov in the investigation, interrogating the accused, while also circulating false information about unrest on the streets of Kherson. Despite his tendency to fall for whispers of unrest, he ultimately concludes that the events of August 1796 were nothing more than a rabble rousing. Khorvat was 46 at the time of the watermelon rebellion. Oh, and did we mention he was married to Zubov's sister and a protege of the prince?
2. Nikolay "The Judge" Mordvinov Nikolay Semyonovich is the man in charge of the Black Sea Admiralty in the 1790s. Conducts the main investigation into the "watermelon rebellion" with Khorvat and is faced with sorting through a number of misleading reports. Mordvinov leads the interrogation of all accused, and ultimately concludes that there has been no rebellion, no bunt, no treasonous behavior, no audacious disturbance, no rioting against Catherine, and no rioting against her claim to rule.
3. Pyotr "Have My Cake and Eat it Too" Yakovlev