DECEMBRISTS

dĭsĕmˈbrĭsts, in Russian history, members of secret revolutionary societies whose activities led to the uprising of Dec., 1825, against Czar Nicholas I. Formed after the Napoleonic Wars, the groups comprised officers who had served in Europe and had been influenced by Western liberal ideals. They advocated the establishment of representative democracy but disagreed on the form it should take; some favored a constitutional monarchy, while others supported a democratic republic. Their poorly organized rebellion was precipitated by the confusion surrounding the succession to the throne on the death of Alexander I. The more moderate members persuaded several regiments in St. Petersburg to refuse their oath of allegiance to the unpopular Nicholas and to demand that his elder brother, Constantine, who had secretly renounced the throne in 1822, be made czar and grant a constitution. The rebels marched to Senate Square and were crushed by artillery fire. Five of their leaders were later executed. The Decembrists' insurrection made a profound impression on Russia. It led both to the increasing police terrorism of the czarist government and to the spread of revolutionary activity among the educated classes.

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The Decembrists
Book by Mikhail Zetlin, George Panin, Michael M. Karpovich, Amari; International Universities Press, 1958
Subjects: Decembrists
...often irritated, especially at those Decembrists who refused to compromise and to hobnob...having them in their midst. Indeed, the Decembrists' presence raised the whole tone of...the local Governor had to prohibit the Decembrists' wives from attending public functions...
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Tolstoy and the Genesis of "War and Peace"
Book by Kathryn B. Feuer, Robin Feuer Miller, Donna Tussing Orwin; Cornell University Press, 1996
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, Graf, 1828-1910. War And Peace
...and so the release of the Decembrists by the emperor might have...reformist program and the Decembrists revolutionary aspirations...first possible indication of Decembrist interests on Tolstoys part...contained major material on the Decembrists, the magazine itself was...
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Russian Identities: A Historical Survey
Book by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: National Characteristics, Russian, Nationalism--Russia--History, Russia--Civilization--Philosophy, Russians--Ethnic Identity, Slavs, Eastern--History--Philosophy
...Zavalishins. The Decembrist rebellion was...revolt. Only ten Decembrists were over forty...Square. A possible Decembrist appeal to the gentry...emphasis of the Decembrists on the abolition...soldiers for the Decembrist cause were few...ultimately the Decembrists had very slight...
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Russia, Poland, and the West: Essays in Literary and Cultural History
Book by Waclaw Lednicki; Hutchinson, 1954
Subjects: Poland--Relations (General) With Soviet Union, Russian Literature--History And Criticism, Soviet Union--Relations (General) With Europe, Soviet Union--Relations (General) With Poland
...them belonged to the Decembrist conspiracy, but both...the meetings of the Decembrists. The sympathies of...degree Pushkin knew the Decembrists is attested to by innumerable...the poet about the Decembrists. These remarks are...condemnation of the Decembrist Revolution. The only...
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Essays in Russian and Soviet History
Book by John Shelton Curtiss; Columbia University Press, 1963
Subjects: Communism--History, Soviet Union--History
...Ideals of the Decembrists , which was published...1909. 2 The Decembrists attracted this...history of the Decembrist movement needed...permission to use the Decembrist documents in...picture of the Decembrists than had been...
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Keeping It in the Family: Surviving Political Exile, 1870-1917*
Journal article by Katy Turton; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 52, 2010
Subjects: Exile
...their involvement in the Decembrist plot. According to historian...the Legend (sic) of the Decembrists." He added that "the heroic conduct of the wives of the Decembrists," who chose to follow their...the female relatives of the Decembrists were a prominent part of...
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Intertextuality at Work: Prince Andrei Kurbskii in Contemporary Russian Literature
Journal article by Harry Walsh; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Aksenov, Vassily, Buida, Iurii, Folklore, Heroism & heroes, History, History & criticism, Ivan IV Vasilyevich (1530-84), Literary criticism, Novels, Plotnikov, Nikolai, Russia, Russian language, Russian literature
...biography of Ryleev dismisses the Decembrist martyrs version of Kurbsk...Kurbskii fits neatly into the Decembrist worldview, since the events...Skuratov, how could the Decembrists not see the same process...persons such as Arakcheev? The Decembrist Fonvizin traced the flaws...
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Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "the Horse of Stone" in Nostromo
Journal article by Christopher Cairney; The Conradian : the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), Vol. 29, 2004
...However, Pushkin also had friends among the ill-fated Decembrists of 1825 who opposed the tsar. A revolutionary flood, they...well.3 Mickiewicz had also made friends with the future Decembrists, and published the poem "Oleszkiewicz" prior to the publication...
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Valentin Rasputin and Siberian Nationalism
Journal article by Galya Diment; World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...as a place of forced exile. It was during the era of the Decembrists, however, that the literary tradition of "unfree" Siberia...which also firmly established itself around the time of the Decembrists. In the early nineteenth century Rasputins Irkutsk, one...
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"ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE": Poetry and Politics in the Time of Stalin
Journal article by David Morse; Social Education, Vol. 65, 2001
Subjects: Art--Censorship, Poets--Crimes against, Propaganda, Soviet--Social aspects, Russian literature--Political aspects, Soviet literature--Political aspects, Stalin, Joseph--Social policy
...Russias revolutionary revolt on December 14, 1825. These Decembrists, former officers influenced by Western European ideas during...the letter. Fearing another insurrection like that of the Decembrists, Tsar Nicholas I sentenced Dostoyevsky and other leading...
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Mission Impossible? Fifteen Actors for 72 Roles, Four Hours for the World's Longest Novel: 'War and Peace' as Staged by the Royal National Theatre
Magazine article by Michael Ratcliffe; New Statesman, Vol. 125, June 14, 1996
Subjects: Royal National Theater of Great Britain--Production and direction, Shared Experience (Theater group)--Production and direction, War and Peace (Theater)--Production and direction
...He filled me in on the Decembrists, many of them aristocrats...to write the story of a Decembrist executed in the rising...very good guess that this Decembrist would have been Pierre. Portraits of Decembrists were removed from the...
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Pushkin and Music: a Poet's Echoes
Magazine article by Gerald Seaman; Musical Times, Vol. 140, Spring 1999
...since he could not be implicated directly in the abortive rising of the Decembrists in 1825.5 However, the fact that copies of Pushkins poems were found among the Decembrists possessions again focused attention on the young poet and in September...
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On the Road to Nowhere: Tom Stoppard's Russian Intellectuals Take a Wrong Turn with Hegel, Just as Edmund Wilson Once Did with Marx
Magazine article by John Patrick Diggins; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Winter 2008
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Russian history--Political aspects, Russian history--Portrayals, Stoppard, Tom--Criticism and interpretation, Stoppard, Tom--Works, The Coast of Utopia (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...elite in 1825. No nation in history has ever waited for its revolution longer or more self-consciously than Russia. The Decembrists had their roots in a group organized in 1816, and a century later the czar fell and the Bolsheviks came to power. But throughout...
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This Side of Ultima Thule: A Dispatch from Eastern Siberia, a Realm of Steel-Shattering Cold, Nullifying Vastness, and Withered Hopes, Which Is Sometimes Called "The White Hell"
Magazine article by Jeffrey Taylor; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Siberia
...their time at hard labor in the ostrogi, but others, revolutionaries, soon joined them. For the latter, who included the Decembrists, Lenin, and Stalin, Siberia was a prison land only in the vaguest sense of the word: here they simply led rustic lives...
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Pushkin
Magazine article by Hugh Barnes; New Statesman, Vol. 128, January 8, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...being the obverse and denial of his Nabokovian persona, and not because it resembled the sinister secret lives led by the Decembrists, for example, who went in for a different species of political conspiracy in the Babylon of Alexandrine Russia. Yet his...
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Ram Raider! DAVE DEPPER ALBUM OF THE WEEK THE RAM PROJECT (City Slang)
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), August 7, 2011
Subjects: Sound recordings
...DAVE DEPPER ALBUM OF THE WEEK THE RAM PROJECT (City Slang). AFTER recording and touring with acclaimed bands such as The Decembrists, Stateside singer-songwriter Dave Depper was at a loss when it came to making an album of his own. Until he heard Paul...
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Siberia in Style
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 11, 2009
...four-course lunch featuring omul, a fish unique to nearby Lake Baikal. Then we were off to a museum commemorating the Decembrists, aristocrats exiled to Siberia after a failed revolution in 1825 who gave the city its title of "The Paris of Siberia...
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A More Confident Faithfull Puts Pain Behind Her; Marianne Has a Few Regrets, but This Legendary Singer Is Better Than Ever
Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), January 7, 2010
...she interprets songs spanning nearly a century of popular music from Duke Ellington and Dolly Parton to Neko Case and the Decembrists. It has a contemporary feel thanks to collaborations with younger musicians such as Chan Marshall, known as Cat Power...
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Not Content to Sit and Watch; A More Confident Marianne Faithfull Puts Pain Behind Her and Hits the Road
Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), January 9, 2010
...she interprets songs spanning nearly a century of popular music from Duke Ellington and Dolly Parton to Neko Case and the Decembrists. It has a contemporary feel thanks to collaborations with younger musicians such as Chan Marshall, known as Cat Power...
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That Valentine Message
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 17, 2005
...to engage troops in combat. There was a time when terror was employed by rebels more "judiciously. In Czarist Russia, Decembrists refrained from bombing the Grand Dukes carriage because of the presence of his children. But we now live in an age of...
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Decembrists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DECEMBRISTS disem brists, in Russian history, members of secret revolutionary...by artillery fire. Five of their leaders were later executed. The Decembrists insurrection made a profound impression on Russia. It led both to the...
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Constantine , Russian Grand Duke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...countess. The arrangement was not made public and some confusion resulted concerning the succession. A group known as the Decembrists took advantage of the situation and attempted to seize power under the slogan "Constantine and Constitution." Nicholas...
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Alexander I , Czar of Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...secret political societies, and when Alexanders brother Nicholas I succeeded him the societies led an abortive revolt (see Decembrists ). After Alexanders death, rumors persisted that he escaped to Siberia and became a hermit. His tomb was opened (1926...
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Bestuzhev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Russian novelist and poet. He wrote popular romantic tales in the Byronic manner. As an officer in the guards he joined the Decembrists and was exiled to Siberia. He was later transferred to the Caucasus, where he found the material for his best novel, Ammalat...
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Tulchin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in 1654 but passed to Russia during the second partition of Poland in 1793. In 1821 the city became the stronghold of the Decembrists. An alternate spelling is Tultchin. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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