section_heading: Otvorena pobuna
paragraph_text: mini|lijevo|250px|[[Boris Kustodijev: Stjenka Razin na Volgi,, 1918., izloženo u Ruskom državnom muzeju u Petrogradu)]] <!-- Even at the beginning of 1671. the issue of the struggle was doubtful. Eight battles had been fought before the insurrection showed signs of weakening, and it continued for six months after Razin had received his quietus. At Simbirsk his prestige had been shattered. Even his own settlements at Saratov and Samara refused to open their gates to him, and the Don Cossacks, hearing that the patriarch of Moscow had anathematized Stenka, also declared against him.