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The Decembrist Revolt (Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized: Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.
Death mask of Alexander I.Alexander's death launched a sequence of events that culminated in the Decembrist revolt and the accession of Nicholas I.. The Russian interregnum of 1825 began December 1 [O.S. November 19] with the death of Alexander I in Taganrog and lasted until the accession of Nicholas I and the suppression of the Decembrist revolt on December 26 [O.S. December 14].
The Chernigov Regiment revolt was the second and the last major armed conflict of the Decembrist revolt in the former Russian Empire.The revolt unfolded January 10 [O.S. December 29] – January 15 [O.S. January 3] 1826 in Ukraine between Kiev and Bila Tserkva.
The Southern Society was created in March 1821 by members of the Tulchin Council of the former Union of Prosperity (Pavel Pestel, Alexei Yushnevsky, Alexander Baryatinsky and a number of others), who formed the so-called "Root Duma" of the society. Pestel and Yushnevsky were originally members of the Directory, the highest governing body of the ...
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Members of the society were divided into "convinced" (full-fledged) and "agreeable" (unequal). The governing body was the "Supreme Duma" of three people (originally Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Turgenev and Yevgeny Obolensky, [2] later - Sergei Trubetskoy, Kondraty Ryleyev and Alexander Bestuzhev).
The Union of Salvation (Russian: Союз спасения, romanized: Sojuz spasenyja), formed in 1816, also known as the Society of True and Loyal Sons of the Fatherland (Russian: Общество истинных и верных сынов отечества, romanized: Obšestvo istinnych i vernych synov otečestva) since 1817, was the first secret political society of the Decembrists.
A commemorative stele to the Five Decemberists on Dekabristov Island. His grandniece Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya (1887 – 1960) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary militant and also became a terrorist: in 1918 she collaborated in the assassination of the German governor of Ukraine Hermann von Eichhorn, and actively worked in two failed attempts on the lives of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi ...