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  Decembrist revolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Prince Trubetskoy failed to turn up at the square, Nicholas sent Count Miloradovich, a military hero who was greatly respected by ordinary soldiers, to pacify the rebels.
Anecdotally, after being defeated in the Crimean war, Nicholas is said to have lamented that his corrupt staff treated him worse than the Decembrists ever had.
Although the revolt was a proscribed topic during Nicholas' reign, Alexander Herzen placed the profiles of executed Decembrists on the cover of his radical periodical Polar Star.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decembrist_Revolt   (1929 words)

  
 WWW Irkutsk: Decembrists in Irkutsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
They had to sign a "renunciation" allowing them to meet with their husbands not more than twice a week and only in the presence of an officer, and they had to give up their money and valuables, only a very small part of which they were to receive back for living expenses.
In 1839, Trubetskoy was deported to the small village of Oyok, thirty-eight kilornetres from Irkutsk, and Yekaterina Trubetskaya and their three daughters and son, who had been born in Siberia, went with him.
According to contemporaries' memoirs, the Trubetskoys' house was open to everyone, and its warm atmosphere was due mostly to Yekaterna Trubetskaya, with whom anyone felt at ease.
www.icc.ru /fed/dec.html   (1682 words)

  
 Voronezh Women - Famous Russian women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nicholas, mortified by his son's suffering and blinded by his devotion to Alexandra, refused to heed the advice of his mother.
Nicholas and Alexandra, along with their children, were sent into exile in the provinces.
Nicholas II implemented reforms to try to stop the strikes and unrest, but his government was weakening.
www.voronezhwomen.com /book_09famousRussianwomen.html   (13423 words)

  
 Orest Kiprensky. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
Later he was an aide de camp to Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich, future Tzar Nicholas I. Participated in the Russian-Turkish War of 1828-1829; was the Governor of Orenburg 1833-1842 and 1851-1857 and played an important role in the colonization of the region.
Count Dmitry Sheremetyev (1803-1871) was the son of Count Nicholas Sheremetyev (1751-1809) and his father's serf, actress of his home theater Praskovya Kovaleva-Zhemchugova (1768-1803), whom he loved for 20 years, until finally married her in 1801.
Trubetskoy, Nikita Petrovich (1804-1886), prince, Councilor of State, the only son of the prince Piotr Sergeevich (1760-1817) and his second wife, Marfa Petrovna, née Kromina.
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 St. Peter-and-Paul's Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia: history of creation.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After his death on January 27, 1725 coffin with the body of the emperor was transported by the frozen ice of the Neva from the old Winter palace and put in especially constructed inside the unfinished cathedral wooden chapel, and after the construction was over, the body was rendered to the mould.
The next important group of conspirators that were punished during the reign of Nicholas I, was group of the so-called Petrashevsky circle – revolutionary noblemen.
Then, according to the script designed by the emperor Nicholas I, instigators were sentenced to death that was to be replaced by other punishment on the very place of execution.
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 Love Mage : Famous Russian women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
She feared that the arrival of this German princess, who was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was going to diminish her influence with Nicholas, and even displace her from her son's adoring heart.
Nicholas was torn between his family's constant meddling in affairs of state, and his wife constant prodding to act more decisively.
But ultimately Pavlova made such a virtue of her over- arched feet that critics said they represented the yearnings of the Russian soul.4 She cleverly devised a shank and platform for her pointe shoes that conserved her energy and let her balance in arabesque until the audience was breathless.
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 The History of the Russian Navy. The Great War.
After the disastrous battle of Tsushima, Nicholas II attempted to institute sweeping reforms in the Naval Administration.
In 1906 Nicholas II established a Naval Headquarters with Captain Lev Brusilov in command.
A bold attempt by Captain Vladimir Trubetskoy to stop the Geben with a division of small destroyers failed because the leading destroyer, Lieutenant Pushchin, became seriously damaged at the outstart.
www.navy.ru /history/hrn11-e.htm   (3337 words)

  
 Full article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There are reckoned to be four equestrian monuments in our city - to Nicholas I, Alexander III and two to Peter I. If we go back to the beginning of this century, we come across this same number, the so-called "mystical quadrangle".
The most typical in this respect is the monument to Nicholas I in St. Isaac's Square, in front of the Mariinsky Palace.
When the horses were ready, Nicholas I sent two of them to Berlin as a gift to the King of Prussia; the new pair of bronze horses did not stay long in Russia either - they were presented to the King of Naples.
www.whererussia.com /spb/fullarticle?id=1216   (1221 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Peter and Paul Fortress"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The fort contains a number of buildings including the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where all Russian tsars from Peter I to Alexander III are interred; the remains of the Imperial martyrs, Nicholas II and his family and entourage, were also interred there more recently.
The fort was established by Peter the Great on May 16 (by the Julian Calendar, May 27 by the Gregorian Calendar) 1703 on a small island, Zayachii (hare) (or Vesiolii - cheerful) ostrov, on the Neva River.
From around 1720 the fort served as a base for the city garrison and also as a prison for high ranking or political prisoners.
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 Full article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The dynasty came to an end with the mediocre Emperor Nicholas II: he and his family, who were shot in 1918, were buried with the appropriate honours in the cathedral 80 years later, alongside their august ancestors.
On the spire of the cathedral's bell-tower is the figure of an Angel (made from a drawing by Antonio Rinaldi), whose hovering wings are spread at a height of 122.5 metres (the highest point in St. Petersburg at that time).
Further on is the Trubetskoy Bastion, infamous as a political prison.
www.whererussia.com /spb/fullarticle?id=5126   (1238 words)

  
 Alexander the Sphinx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Trubetskoy even thought that the tsar might be persuaded to accept a constitutional regime.
Yet Nicholas feared a revolt if he did not bow to Constantine who was perceived as more liberal.
The plan was to prevent the Senate and the State Council from taking the oath to Nicholas and force him to summon a constituent assembly for the purpose of setting up a provisional government according to the Speransky proposal.
mars.acnet.wnec.edu /%7Egrempel/courses/russia/lectures/17alexander.html   (4282 words)

  
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The egg, containing a gold replica of the monument to Alexander III by Peter Trubetskoy, rests on a rectangular base of lapis lazuli bordered by two rows of roses.
The lower hemisphere of the egg served as a platform for the replica of the monument and is supported by cast platinum cherubs coiled into position on a base of crystal.
Presented by emperor Nicholas II to his mother, dowager Marie Feodorovna, Easter 1910.
www.cominf.ru /faberge/english/f_egg08.html   (171 words)

  
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Tomb of Yekaterina Trubetskaya with three of her children - countess and wife of S. Trubetskoy, one of the founders and leaders of the Northern Secret Society - the first woman to follow her husband into exile in Siberia.
Legend has it that Russian merchant Serebriakov was caught in a storm out on the lake and prayed to St. Nicholas (Protector of Navigators) for help.
His prayers were answered and on his safe return he began to build a church to thank the saint (in 1846).
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 Year One of the Russian Revolution | Chpt. 8
Nicholas II, his closest relatives, his retinue of five courtiers and thirty-five servants left Tsarskoye-Seloe on 14 August in a special train that flew the pennant of the Japanese Red Cross.
Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna received the last homage of their last subjects on the threshold of the house of that `holy man' who had been so instrumental in bringing about their down-fall.
Nicholas II was received in the working-class capital of the 'Ural region by an energetic Bolshevik, Byeloborodov, Chairman of the Regional Soviet Executive, who had directed the conduct of the whole matter.
www.marxists.org /archive/serge/1930/year-one/ch08.htm   (12835 words)

  
 wiki/Decembrist Uprising Definition / wiki/Decembrist Uprising Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A group of officers commanding about 3,000 men refused to swear allegianceAllegiance is the duty which some think a subject or a citizen owes to the state or to the sovereign of the state to which some think he belongs.
On December 14 the leaders (many of whom belonged to the high aristocracy) elected Prince Trubetskoy as interim dictatorDictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency.
The expression Decembrist wife is a Russian symbol of the devotion of a wife to her husband.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Decembrist_Uprising   (1723 words)

  
 St. Peter-and-Paul's Fortress - www.HotelsOfRussia.com - St. Peter-and-Paul's Fortress was conceived by Peter I during ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Exhibition at the Trubetskoy rampart of the fortress tells about its history and life of its prisoners, among them – the Decembrists and well-known writers.
Peter-and-Paul's Cathedral built to the project of D.Trezzini is an expressive monument of Peter's epoque architecture; St. Peter-and-Pauls's fortress is a family vault of the Russian emperors of the Romanov dynasty and their family members, beginning from Peter the Great to the last Russian tsar Nicholas II.
Needle of the cathedral's bell-tower reaches 122,5 metres, and the cathedral is not only a semantic centre of the city, but also one of its highest landmarks.
www.hotelsofrussia.com /en/spb/dphoto/8   (452 words)

  
 Best of Russia --- History --- Decembrists Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the early19th century, however, the tide changed direction as revolutionary ideas began to permeate the minds of young noblemen who, having witnessed the benefits delivered by the constitutional government to the countries of Western Europe, were prompted to release their motherland from the manacles of autocratic oppression.
Yekaterina Trubetskaya, wife of the General Sergey Trubetskoi, was the first to leave for Siberia (in July 1826).
The portrait of her holding her baby son Nicholas was the only thing that reminded her of him during the 30 years that she spent in Siberia.
www.bestofrussia.ca /decembrists.html   (1613 words)

  
 The Peter and Paul Fortress
Originally, only reigning monarchs were buried in the cathedral, but from 1831 on, by order of Nicholas I, grand dukes and their families were also buried there.
The ashes of the last imperial family (Nicholas II, Alexandra and their children), who were murdered in 1918, were transferred and buried in the cathedral.
The image of St. Nicholas guards this gate, which is the fortress' exit toward Vasilyevsky Island.
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 First Freemasons in Estonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It housed a library with a wide selection of books for that time, also a wood carving of an Estonian pagan god and a letter written by Martin Luther himself, wich were worth seeing.
The sights of the second biggest church St. Nicholas' Church were the embalmed remains of the Russian commander-in-chief, Duke de Croy, who had lost the battle of Narva to the troops of Charles XII.
Master of the Lodge was Ivan Artemjev, a high government official, chief secretary of the ruling Senate; his deputies were Rosenberg and Baron Reichel (the latter was considered to be the founder of the Lodge).
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 -[ ruv.net : Marxist Infopedia ]- The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra's Plan
It need hardly be said that the workers' response to the Zemstvo petitions must be to call meetings, scatter leaflets, and—where there are forces enough—organise demonstrations to present all the Social-Democratic demands, regardless of the “panic” of Mr.
Trubetskoy and his like or of the philistines' cries about levers for reaction.
The way for the workers to give serious support to the Zemstvo petitions is not by concluding agreements about the conditions on which the Zemstvo-ists would have a right to speak in the name of the people, but by striking a blow at the people's enemies.
www.artpolitic.org /marx/archive/lenin/works/1904/nov/30a.htm   (5452 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Petropavlovsk Fortress
Other structures include the Mint building (active), the Trubetskoy bastion, and the City Museum.
The Trubetskoy bastion, built in the 1870s, became the main prison block.
The Cathedral was built from 1712 to 1733, and has a 123.2 m bell-tower and a gilded angel-topped cupola.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Petropavlovsk-Fortress   (519 words)

  
 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Russian Freemasonry
Madariaga (Russian in the Age...p.530) has suggested that this may be due to the fact that Trubetskoy et al were members of the highest aristocracy and Bazenov was too lowly.
Nicholas was said to have been a member of this lodge, which suspended its work in 1916.
Nicholas I: Emperor and Aurtocrat of all the Russians, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1978.
www.casebook.org /dissertations/freemasonry/russianfm.html   (15431 words)

  
 Miek's Fabergé 1910 Alexander III Equestrian Egg
The Egg, containing a gold replica of the monument to Alexander III by Peter Trubetskoy (1866-1938), rests on a rectangular base of lapis lazuli bordered by two rows of roses.
The enormous statue of Alexander III, ordered by the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna, on which the miniature is based, was made by Trubetskoi and unveiled in 1909.
The abundant use of platinum in this Egg may be misleading; platinum was in Russia at that time not regarded with the esteem reserved for gold.
www.mieks.com /Faberge2/1910-Alexander-III-Equestrian-Egg.htm   (325 words)

  
 The Character of Russian Religious Thought of the XIX Century
The “I”, having fallen away from Sobornost’, from the churchly “we”, sundered from tradition as the inner life of the churchly organism, ceases to be commensurate with the existing or know it.
Trubetskoy terms such a collective gnosseology a metaphysical socialism.
It is appropriate also to mention Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, the influence of whom became apparent within the XX Century.
www.berdyaev.com /berdiaev/berd_lib/1930_345.html   (12949 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Events Listings (Exhibits)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rasputin: Life in the Mirror of Death An exhibition of wax figures, photographs and documents exploring the character and legacy of Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian monk who became the favorite of the wife of the last Romanov tsar, Nicholas II.
Nicholas De Stael Retrospective An joint exhibition with Paris' Pompidou Center of work by one of the last great abstractionists, who, although considered a member of the Paris School, was born in Ukraine but left the Soviet Union in 1919.
The Murder of Grigory Rasputin An excursion around the building in which the controversial monk and advisor to Nicholas II was murdered.
www.sptimesrussia.com /archive/times/898/events   (2792 words)

  
 Books : Boris Godunov
Nicholas Rzhevsky, the editor and translator, provides a vibrant new translation, faithful to the original, yet suitable for modern readers and contemporary performance on the stage.
Trubetskoy, set thou forth, and thou Basmanov; My zealous governors need help.
Chernigov Already by the rebel is besieged; Rescue the city and citizens.
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 1930: The History of the Russian Revolution—Ch. 33
In his inability to rely upon the peasant infantry-evident in advance to the conspirators themselves-to say nothing of relying upon the workers, is expressed the socially outcast position of Kornilov’s clique.
The picture of political forces traced by the headquarters’ diplomat, Prince Trubetskoy, was correct in many things, but mistaken in one.
After hesitating and conferring with his friends, the general, not without a contemptuous grimace, accepted the appointment-with the aim, as he explained to his own people, of liquidating the conflict in a peaceful manner.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/ch33.htm   (7743 words)

  
 Home Page of Irkutsk, New York Times on Irkutsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Two of the most interesting log "cabins" are open to the public.
They were built by the so-called Decembrists, a group of revolutionary officers who were exiled to Irkutsk after their activities led to an uprising against Czar Nicholas I in December 1825.
The smaller cabin, about 1,500 square feet, belonged to the romantic Count Sergei Trubetskoy, whose wife was allowed to follow him into exile on the condition she give up her title.
www.icc.ru /fed/nytimes.html   (966 words)

  
 History of the Building
Later the house was bought by the Royal family.
It used to be a place of exile for a grandson of Nicholas I, the Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich who was a gambler.
After Alexander II was assassinated in 1881, his morganatic widow princess Yurievskaya could no longer stay in the Winter palace and moved to this mansion, bringing with her the late Emperor's personal belongings to exhibit them in a memorial museum (the study and the bedroom) open to the public.
www.eu.spb.ru /en/univ/hist_build.htm   (329 words)

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