Decembrists: History, Fate, Biography
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The December 14, 1825, uprising on Senate Square is one of the most striking chapters in Russian history. However, 200 years later, debates about the causes, plan, course, and outcome of the uprising continue. Was it a large-scale uprising of like-minded nobles seeking to carry out a coup d'état, or merely an "incident," as the uprising was called in official sources?
A closer understanding of the Decembrist movement, without resorting to ready-made ideological interpretations, can be achieved by studying the biographies of its participants.
This book is dedicated to the fates of 120 Decembrists convicted by the Supreme Criminal Court. During the investigation, personally overseen by Emperor Nicholas I, 117 rebels confessed to their crimes; most faced prison, hard labor, and exile; five were sentenced to death. Who were these people? Which of them were led to the heights of power by the rebellion, and who found themselves caught up in the maelstrom of political events? What were the lives of the Decembrists like before and after 1825? Which of them managed to overcome the hardships of punishment, and which succumbed to the harsh trials and despair? This is the subject of a new book by renowned St. Petersburg historian Andrzej Ikonnikov-Galitsky.
A closer understanding of the Decembrist movement, without resorting to ready-made ideological interpretations, can be achieved by studying the biographies of its participants.
This book is dedicated to the fates of 120 Decembrists convicted by the Supreme Criminal Court. During the investigation, personally overseen by Emperor Nicholas I, 117 rebels confessed to their crimes; most faced prison, hard labor, and exile; five were sentenced to death. Who were these people? Which of them were led to the heights of power by the rebellion, and who found themselves caught up in the maelstrom of political events? What were the lives of the Decembrists like before and after 1825? Which of them managed to overcome the hardships of punishment, and which succumbed to the harsh trials and despair? This is the subject of a new book by renowned St. Petersburg historian Andrzej Ikonnikov-Galitsky.
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