Decembrist

At the time when the elder brother, with a mass of debts, married Princess Varya Tchirkova, the daughter of a Decembrist without any fortune whatever, Alexey had given up to his elder brother almost the whole income from his father's estate, reserving for himself only twenty-five thousand a year from it.

Olenina remembered the Decembrist Obolensky in this light: "This unfortunate man had a duel, and he kdled his adversary.

1825: Tsarist troops under Nicholas I crushed the "Decembrist" revolt in St Petersburg led by liberal reformist army officers.

A particularly nice touch is a lovely little bit of social history in an extended caption accompanying a portrait of the wives of one of the Decembrist coup leaders.

"The Blacklist" (NBC) The beloved TV vet already has six Emmy Awards, and over 30 nominations, but this would be Emmy's last chance to reward Alda for his excellent performance as Alan Fitch, a senior member of the underground crime syndicate the Cabal, who met his untimely end in the episode "The Decembrist." Not many actors can give James Spader a run for his money, but Alda manages to command the screen and deliver valuable exposition -- all with a pipe bomb strapped to his neck.

The episode 8, "The Decembrist," hinted that Red and Tom knew each other and it was not only because Tom was once Liz's husband.

This work was not enthusiastically received, Pushkin even thinking it contained "nothing national or Russian except for the name itself." (81) Although Ryleev's portrait of Susanin eventually inspired Glinka to compose his opera, "A Life for the Tsar," the poet's real contribution to Russian literature was his next major work, the narrative poem "Voinarovsky," which directly dealt with the theme of Ukrainian-Russian relations and appeared on the very eve of the Decembrist Rebellion of 1825.

Over the entire story hangs the crushing of the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 and the inspiration he and others nevertheless found in its martyrs.

The origin of this lake goes back to the period of 1740-1749 according to the data collected by the exiled Decembrist Nikolay Bestuzhev.

For the Decembrist Konstantin Ryleev, the History seemed to embody his own struggle against autocracy, while for Aleksandr Pushkin, the History was an admirable work of imperial Russian patriotism (pp.

By Nina L Khrushcheva/Moscow In 1811, assessing the possibility -- or, rather, the impossibility -- of Russia ever undergoing a Western-style transformation, the diplomat and counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre famously wrote: "Every nation has the government it deserves." Fourteen years later, the Decembrist revolt -- a movement of poets and army officers to topple Czar Nicholas I and establish a constitutional monarchy -- seemed to refute de Maistre's claim.