

The gathering was peaceful throughout the day, but toward evening there was rioting, looting, and arson throughout the harbor front. By 10 a.m., some five thousand Odessans gathered there in support of the sailors. At 6 a.m., the body of Vakulenchuk was brought to the Odessa Steps, a staircase that connected the port and the city. On June 15, the Potemkin arrived at Odessa, where the crew hoped to get support from striking workers. Afanasy Matushenko, a torpedo quartermaster and one of leaders of the ship's Social Democrats, took command. This sparked a revolt, during which Golikov, Gilyarovsky, and other senior officers were killed or thrown overboard. There was a confrontation between the delegation and Commander Gilyarovsky, the executive officer, who killed Vakulenchuk. The sailors, dissatisfied with this verdict, sent a deputation, headed by Grigory Vakulenchuk, a sailor and a member of the ship's Social Democrat organization, to Golikov. The ship's doctor inspected the meat and declared it fit for human consumption.

On June 14, while at sea on artillery maneuvers, its sailors protested over the quality of meat that was brought on board that day for their supper. The Potemkin, commissioned in 1902, was commanded by Captain Golikov. Send us feedback about these examples.The Potemkin Mutiny that took place during the 1905 Russian Revolution on board of battleship Knyaz Potemkin Tavricheskiy of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on June 14 –25, 1905. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'mutiny.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Pandemic fatigue is also making some subset of generally reliable Democrats crabby enough to mutiny for no particular reason. 2023 How many starved to death, how many slit their own throats, how many tried to mutiny, how many walked the plank. Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 30 June 2023 His executive team nearly mutinied a year after Kim took over and handed down his edict. Adom Getachew, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021 At least two groups claimed responsibility for the attack, one describing itself as a hacktivist organization and the other as part of the Wagner Group, the mercenaries who mutinied last week and marched most of the way to Moscow. Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023 In February 1915, Indian soldiers mutinied in Singapore following rumors that they would soon be sent to Egypt to fight fellow Muslims of the Ottoman Empire. Declan Walsh, New York Times, 26 July 2023 Even before the Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin mutinied against Putin, this was a questionable assumption. Verb The United States, the United Nations, the European Union and regional bodies called on the mutinying soldiers to stand down. Time, 27 July 2023 After the brief mutiny in Russia by the Wagner mercenary group last month, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson expressed support for the Putin regime. Bloomberg, Fortune, 29 July 2023 There was no immediate indication of whether the mutiny was supported by other parts of the military. Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 Putin chose not to punish Prigozhin after the mutiny because it was directed not against him but at Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, people familiar with the matter said.

Reuters, NBC News, 31 July 2023 In the days after Wagner’s aborted mutiny, Prigozhin went largely quiet, releasing just a cryptic audio message. 2023 Despite that, Prigozhin attended a meeting with Putin five days after the mutiny and was photographed last week in St Petersburg, where President Vladimir Putin was hosting African leaders. The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023 The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors. 2023 But an aborted June 24 mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary tycoon, seems to have changed the calculation for the Russian leader. Prigozhin, the mercenary tycoon, seems to have changed the calculation for the Russian leader. Noun But an aborted June 24 mutiny by Yevgeny V.
