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2 unusual facts about Decembrist revolt


Decembrist revolt

Eidelman, Natan (1985) Conspiracy against the tsar, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 294 p. (Translation from the Russian by Cynthia Carlile.)

Maria Volkonsky, the wife of the Decembrist leader Sergei Volkonsky, notably followed her husband to his exile in Irkutsk.


Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy

Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy (1828-1900) was a Privy Counsellor and Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Court, relative of the Decembrist Prince S. P. Troubetzkoy, served as the President of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society, and for many years was a close aide of the composer Nikolai Rubinstein.


see also

Pestel

Pavel Pestel (1793-1826), revolutionary leader in Russia's 1825 Decembrist revolt