Russian Conspirators In Siberia

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Excerpt from Russian Conspirators in Siberia: A Personal Narrative The subject of this book will be new to many of its readers; the rising of the soldiers at St. Petersburg in 1825 is but little known or remembered, and there are few people who are aware of more than the fact that those who took part in the insurrection which broke out in the December of that year are called Dekabrists in Russia, and that they made a vain attempt to take advantage of the succession of Nicholas to the throne to effect great political changes. When these notes were first made, the author had no idea of their going beyond his own immediate circle - his children, his nearest relatives, and the companions with whom he had spent the most memorable years of his life, the years of his imprisonment and residence in Siberia and Caucasia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Andrel Evgenévich Rosen's book provides a personal narrative of the Russian conspirators in Siberia. It examines the various figures who were involved in subversive activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including anarchists, socialists, and revolutionaries. The book also provides a detailed look at the various challenges faced by these conspirators, including the constant threat of arrest and exile. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Russia and the development of radical political movements. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Following Napoleon's defeat, a generation of young Russian officers were acutely conscious of the backward social and political conditions in their own country, compared to those in France. Taking advantage of the confusion after Alexander I's sudden death, on 14th December 1825, the officer-conspirators gathered their troops in St Petersburg to demand, among other things, a constitutional monarchy. The revolt's suppression was brutal: executions, hard labour and perpetual exile for the 121 ringleaders, many of whom belonged to Russia's wealthiest and most influential families. But thanks in part to the wives who followed them, the Decembrists maintained coherence as a group, and those who survived for the new Tsar's amnesty in 1856 returned home as living legends. The Estonian Baron Rosen was scarcely more than a bystander at the events of December 1825, but he waspunished alongside the ringleaders and shared their fate. His account of the rebellion itself, of the years in Siberia and his subsequent exile, remains the best primary source for what happened. First published in his native German in 1869 (and in English in 1872), this vivid, accurate memoir stands as a fascinating precursor to the testaments of later political prisoners such as Nadezhda Mandelstam, Evgenia Ginzburg, Solzhenitsyn and Havel.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.