Emelyan and the Cossacks entered the Belogorsk fortress. By order of Pugachev, the commandant was hanged. Now he sat in his throne, which was simply a better chair. He was in a red caftan, considering himself Peter III. He did not know that the red caftan was not a formal imperial uniform. He didn't even know how to write. But he sat with a serious, stoic face, as if nothing bothered him