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	Decembrist revolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising was attempted in Imperial Russia by army officers who led about 3,000 Russian soldiers on December 14 (December 26 New Style), 1825.
		The expression Decembrist wife is a Russian symbol of the devotion of a wife to her husband.
		To some extent, the Decembrists were in the tradition of a long line of palace revolutionaries who wanted to place their candidate on the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decembrist_revolt (1909 words)

	Decembrist revolt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising was attempted in (additional info and facts about Imperial Russia) Imperial Russia by army officers who led about 3,000 Russian soldiers on December 14 (December 26 (additional info and facts about New Style) New Style), 1825.
		Other Decembrists were exiled to (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters) Siberia and the (A popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)) Far East.
		But because the Decembrists also wanted to implement a liberal political program, their revolt has been considered the beginning of a (The overthrow of a government by those who are governed) revolutionary movement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/decembrist_revolt.htm (852 words)

	Student Paper: Larisa Ayrapetova: The Decembrists and The Russian Intelligentsia
		Although the Decembrist insurrection completely failed, it was nonetheless the first attempt in modern Russian history to overthrow the absolutist regime whose leaders pursued specific political goals: reorganization of the government and abolition of serfdom.
		The impact of the delayed progress was not as poignantly perceived until the War of 1812 and subsequent exposure to the Western culture saturated with sentiments of individual rights and freedoms and fashioned in the manner of a contemporary industrial state.
		The Decembrists, in fact, came to be regarded as the forefathers of the Russian revolutionary movement by the future insurgents, including Herzen, Petraschevsky and Lenin who looked to the Decembrists as an inspiration in their fight against the autocracy.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/ayrapetova-dec.html (2791 words)

	The Decembrists of Siberia
		Despite the charitable deeds, the bejewelled balls, the touching amateur dramatics, a sadness permeates the walls of the Volkonsky house.
		The wives of the Decembrists were still exiles, unable even to write to their relations for the first terrible years.
		Staring absentmindedly out of the window, you can imagine her dreaming back to the glorious Saint Petersburg of her youth, to the balls of the immense Winter Palace and the genteel salons, to another life which was denied her.
	www.nomadom.net /russia/decembrists.htm (1240 words)

	WWW Irkutsk: Decembrists in Irkutsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The wives and fiancees of some Decembrists came to Siberia to share the lot of their men, overcoming the opposition of the authorities and of their relatives, losing their rights and possessions, and travelling thousands of kilometres by sledge and carriage.
		In order to strike the Decembrists totally out of their lives, the Church and State passed a law whereby the Decembrist's wives were considered widows and allowed to remarry within their husbands' lifetime without an official divorce.
		Together with another Decembrist's wife, Maria Volkonskaya, who had caught up to her on the way, she rented a little house with tiny rooms that were so cold that at night hoarfrost would form on the walls and their hair would freeze to the bed.
	www.icc.ru /fed/dec.html (1682 words)

	Best of Russia --- History --- Decembrists Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Decembrists, 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.
		The partial source of the Decembrists' failure is to be located precisely in their removal from the populace whose alleviation they were campaigning.
		Although the Decembrists sincerely desired allayment of the yoke of serfdom from the necks of the peasantry, the idea of cooperation with the mob was repugnant even to the most liberal Decembrists.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /decembrists.html (1613 words)

	Imperial Russia, 1815-1917 - Position Paper
		The Decembrist Society was basically a group of liberal military noblemen who sought to set up a constitutional monarchy after the death of Alexander I. They came from the war in the west, leaving them with the impression of western democratic countries which reflected badly on their own monarchical state.
		Pestel, leading figure of the Decembrist movement stated: "The desirability of granting freedom to the serfs was considered from the very beginning; for that purpose a majority of the nobility was to be invited in order to petition the Emperor about it.
		The Decembrists made a pact with their Polish counterparts, a similar secret society and attempted to rally the people with their various bases across the country, not basing themselves just in St Petersburg and Moscow.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~pvteach/imprus/papers/02b.html (818 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		The collection has portraits of the Decembrists, their wives and relatives, scenes of Petersburg and Siberia relating to the uprising, the investigation of the participants and the ensuing forced labor, exile and service in the Caucasus.
		Photographs from the Decembrist collection of the Hermitage are exhibited very rarely and partially, which is why the decision was taken to allow Irkutsk to display 39 of the most interesting works that bear the stamp of a photo studio.
		The Decembrists were photographed upon their return from Siberia in the various cities where they took residence and also abroad.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/04/2004/hm4_2_059.html (505 words)

	the Decembrists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The goal of the Decembrists' activity was to create a more human Russia, the abolishment of serfdom and a creation of a constitutional monarchy.
		In the year of 1825 Alexander I suddenly died, and regiments loyal to the Decembrists were gathered in St. Petersburg claiming that if the brother Constantine would become the new tsar he would introduce a constitution.
		Nicholas I didn't see the Decembrists' Revolt as a demand for a constitution, but thought that it was a worldwide conspiracy against monarchy.
	www.gavle.to /~t.hallqvist/english6.html (398 words)

	The Decembrists, European_History, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		The Decembrists Revolt of 1825 Russia has had a huge history as a country most of that history has been spread with a vast range of revolutionary activity, aimed at over throwing the autocratic governments of Russia.
		Although the Decembrist mutiny completely failed, it was none the less the first attempt in modern Russian history to overthrow the absolutory rule The small group of leader had in mind specific political goals for there motherland: a reorganization of the government and abolition of serfdom.
		The Decembrists, in fact, came to be regarded as the forefathers of the Russian revolutionary movement by the future insurgent, including Herzen, Petraschevsky and Lenin who looked to the Decembrists as an inspiration in their fight against the autocracy (Ulam 27).
	www.chuckiii.com /Reports/European_History/The_Decembrists.shtml (2928 words)

	Articles about lake Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was to Irkutsk that many of the Decembrists rebels were banished after a failed insurrection in 1825.
		Mostly high-ranking military officers of the nobility, the Decembrists moved against the czar and demanded the abolition of serfdom and other democratic reforms.
		Slowly, as their prison sentences ended or when amnesty was granted, some of the surviving Decembrists gathered in Irkutsk.
	www.baikaler.com /article05.html (865 words)

	Russia Uprising 1825
		Paul Pestel (1794-1826), leader of a Kievan rebel group, was soon captured in southern Russia, and a military uprising was quelled on January 15, 1826.
		The revolt was soon over, and the Decembrists who remained alive were arrested.
		The "Decembrists' revolt" was the first open breach between the government and liberal elements--a breach that subsequently widened.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/romeo/russia1825.htm (408 words)

	Travel to Russia: Chita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chita's place in Russian history was made in 1827, when 85 of the Decembrist revolutionaries, including leading military figures and academics, were exiled to the area to work in construction or in silver mines.
		It is no accident that the church was chosen for the Decembrists' Museum, as its history is closely connected with the exiled revolutionaries.
		The bulk of the museum's collection is devoted to the Decembrists' exile in Chita region.
	www.redstarintl.com /city10.htm (1073 words)

	Decembrist Uprising
		The Decembrist Uprising was an aborted attempt to force reforms in Russia that took place in December 1825.
		The Decembrist Uprising was severely suppressed but it greatly influenced the minds of the Russian people and gave a push to further development of revolutionary movements in Russia.
		This uprising took place in the Senate Square, and in 1925 to the centenary of the event it was renamed to the Decembrist Square.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/decembrist_uprising (285 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Decembrists
		Decembrists, name applied to Russian officers who led a mutiny in December 1825.
		Catherine II died in 1796 and was succeeded by her son, Paul I. His increasingly despotic and unbalanced policies prompted court nobles to conspire...
		Rebellion : Russia and Soviet Union: Decembrists – Nicholas I
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Decembrists.html (104 words)

	Decembrist Revolt
		A group of officers commanding about 3,000 men refused to swear allegiance to the new tsar, Alexander's brother Nicholas, proclaiming instead their loyalty to the idea of a Russian constitution.
		Nicholas easily overcame the revolt, and the Decembrists who remained alive were arrested.
		The Decembrist Revolt was the first open breach between the government and liberal elements, and it would subsequently widen.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/decembrist_revolt (401 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - The Decemberists *
		The Decembrists’ vocalist and songwriter, Colin Meloy, is searching through the past to create something fresh, both in his songwriting and in his instrumentation.
		The incredible ability to alter and transform music with the computer has led to some mind-bending results and extraordinarily progressive music, but it’s sometimes refreshing to hear bands that are capable of embracing their past and pointing to the future at the same time.
		The Decembrists are this kind of band, and while they might not sound sufficiently experimental to turn many heads these days, their songwriting, ear for melody, and depth of playing should earn them some regard, and as this is only their first album, they seem to possess an enormous amount of potential.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/284 (776 words)

	Encyclopedia: Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By Soviet historiography, revolutionary activity in Russia began with the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.
		A parliament, the State Duma, was established in 1906, after the 1905 Revolution but political and social unrest continued and was aggravated during World War I by military defeat and food shortages.
		Decembrists at the Senate Square The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising was attempted in Imperial Russia by army officers who led about 3,000 Russian soldiers on December 14 (December 26 New Style), 1825.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Soviet-Union (10513 words)

	ST. PETERSBURG
		This square lies between St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Neva River It was the sight of the Decembrists uprising in 1825 Because of this event, the square earned a new name during the socialist era as the Decembrists were canonized in communist propaganda as visionaries and precursors of socialism.
		The Decembrist Square consists of an equestrian statue of Peter, Riding school, Victory columns, Senate and Synod, and Alexander Garden.
		Decembrist Square is the second of St. Petersburg's great squares.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pete3/pete3.htm (1365 words)

	The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: Eastern Siberia: Irkutsk
		Exiles were first sentenced to hard labor, but there was the added condition that even after the sentence was served, the released prisoner was to remain in Siberia and not allowed to return to Moscow.
		The Decembrists were the most famous, and romantic, of the Siberian exiles.
		They were not anarchist revolutionaries, but Officer Corps which had saved Russia from Napoleon in 1812, and were in dispair about the disastrous condition of the country under the incompetent Nicholas I. In December 1825, they launched their abortive coup--but failed.
	www.sras.org /cities.phtml?m=58 (367 words)

	The Indecisive Russian Intelligentsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Decembrists seized upon this confusion, and, on 14 December 1825, the officers of several regiments marched their men out to the square in front of the Winter Palace in an attempt to block the accession of Nicholas.
		The Decembrists in all probability would deserve only a modest footnote in history as another of the numerous abortive palace coups if Nicholas had not made martyrs of the lot, hanging some and exiling the rest to Siberia.
		The thirty years between the failure of the Decembrists and the disaster of the Crimean War were relatively free of revolutionary activities.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1982/jan-feb/whiting.html (2466 words)

	SENATE SQUARE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The statue, commissioned by Catherine the Great in honor of Peter the Great, is inscribed on the sides in Latin and Russian "To Peter the First from Catherine the Second." The piece of granite upon which the statue rests was a favorite of Peter the Great.
		Senate Square was the sight of the ill-fated Decembrists' uprising in 1825.
		This event earned the square a new name during the socialist era as the Decembrists were canonized in communist propaganda as visionaries and precursors of socialism, which is about as historically sound as claiming that Brezhnev's precursor was Elvis.
	www.freshspb.ru /sights/senate.html (251 words)

	Dostoevsky's Intellectual Influences
		They attempted in December 1825 to overthrow the newly established reign of Nicholas I in favor of a representative form of government.
		Many of the Decembrists also supported the abolition of serfdom.
		The wives of the Decembrists met with Dostoevsky on his way into exile and presented him with a copy of The New Testament.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~karamazo/influences.html (1117 words)

	What Can We Do?: The Decemberists - Article - Stylus Magazine
		Due to the hesitation and vacillation on the part of their own leaders, these Decembrists, as they became known, ultimately failed in their quest to bring liberal Western ideals to a backwards and mystical Russia.
		After the failed revolution, five of the Decembrists were executed, and the others sent into exile in Siberia.
		The opening track, "Leslie Anne Levine" is the dolefully doomed tale of a cast away child abandoned by her loafer of a mother.
	stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=43 (1726 words)

	Russians In Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Decembrists and freemasons played a very important role in Russian history, because they were the only `revolutionaries' that ever contributed something to the well-being of the people of Russia.
		Many Decembrists and freemasons were killed or imprisoned; some managed to escape abroad, where they lived in exile.
		In the summer of 1825 he was a 21 years old lieutenant of the Penzensky Regiment, but also a Decembrist, who in 1826, together with his brother, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in Siberia.
	www.joebattsarm.com /lexicografie/dias5.html (2523 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| features Ex-tycoon's fate turned into Russian epic
		The location, close to Russia's border with China, is famous in Russian history as the place where autocratic Tsar Nicholas I sent the Decembrists — a group of aristocrats animated by democratic ideals who staged a failed uprising against him in December 1825.
		Khodorkovsky's wife, Inna, this week followed in the footsteps of the Decembrists' wives, who left luxurious mansions to join their husbands in faraway Siberia.
		Ahead of her prison visit, Khodorkovskaya paid a symbolic visit to a church built by the Decembrists in the province of Chita, where Krasnokamensk is situated.
	business.iafrica.com /features/510568.htm (619 words)

	russia
		Members of various revolutionary groups influenced by Western and liberal ideas, the Decembrists tried to prevent the accession to the throne of Grand Duke Nicholas after the death of his eldest brother Czar Alexander I, favoring instead Nicholas's brother Constantine (1779-1831) and a constitutional monarchy.
		The Decembrists were regarded as martyrs by later Russian revolutionaries.
		On the death of his eldest brother, Emperor Alexander I, Nicholas came to the throne after suppressing the Decembrist revolt, staged by reform-minded army officers who favored the accession of his brother Constantine.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/russia.htm (8099 words)

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		The Volkonsky Family House, now one of many Decembrist museums in Siberia, is where the Volkonsky family lived in a traditional Siberian wooden home (izba) with wooden gingerbread shutters, dark hardwood floors and wide wooden beams covering the ceiling.
		The Volkonsky House pays tribute primarily to Maria, an aristocratic wife of one of the 22 exiled, married Decembrists.
		Some of her clothes, shoes, a writing desk and music box are on display, along with portraits of 10 Decembrists’ wives lining the wall of a large upstairs room.
	www.jimrogers.com /content/stories/story_19990808.html (303 words)

	Global Freemasonry. com - This site is based on the works of Harun Yahya.
		This group was called the "Decembrists" because of the month in which they attempted their revolution.
		The Decembrists were none other than MasonsThe officers, intellectuals and writers who made up the group were members of the lodges outlawed by Tsar Alexander I three years earlier.
		The venture of the Decembrists ended in failure, but the Masons did not give up their intent to topple the Tsar.
	www.globalfreemasonry.com /global_freemasonry_06.html (5851 words)

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