The Russian revolt is not meaningless at all. Not always merciless. And to see him is a cruel impression, but purifying for the mind and soul. The revolt of Emelyan Pugachev shook the Russian Empire in 1773-1775. For Russia, it was a time of absolutism and world leadership. But how did the Enlightenment era give rise to the Horde demands of the rebels? In pugachevshchina everything is very difficult. It had very bizarre reasons and was heterogeneous to the point of fantasticism. Alexey Ivanov's book "Pitchfork" is a search for an answer to the question "What is Pugachevism?". This question can be formulated differently: "What is Russia like from the inside?" The author offers his own method of answering: "impose history on the territory." Go now, in the XXI century, along the ancient roads of the great rebellion and try to understand who we are on this earth.