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Decembrist

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Decembrist

Member of one of several Russian secret societies which adopted western liberal ideas and joined forces to attempt a rebellion against the new Tsar Nicholas I in December 1825. The rebellion was crushed and five of its leaders executed, but revolutionary activity and increasing police terror continued throughout the century.



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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.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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