regular life turned Russia in 1825, December 14.On this day there was a revolt of the Decembrists.It was brutally suppressed, the investigation attracted 579 participants.Five were sentenced to death, sentenced to hard labor in Siberia were deported 120 people.After the trial ended, all convicted criminals and political declared officially dead.
«political death" meant then legally the loss of absolutely all the rights of a citizen of the country.The wives of the Decembrists were further decides their fate.They could file for divorce or stay married.Also, women were given the opportunity to go to prison for men.Two have filed for divorce.
contemporary famous names of eleven women - companions of the first Russian revolutionaries, the Decembrists - followed their men to hard labor in Siberia.They were not in the secret societies, did not take part in the uprising, but made a heroic act.
feat wives of the Decembrists not only reflects their love and devotion to their husbands.Leading public appreciated the time they act, giving it a broad social and political significance.Voluntarily follow "state criminals", wives of the Decembrists, like their husbands, spoke out against serfdom and autocracy, not afraid of losing benefits and privileges.
It should be noted that Nicholas 1 was creating all sorts of obstacles to departure wives of the Decembrists.One of the most stringent conditions were leaving Russia in European children.
first went to her husband Catherine Trubetskaya.In six months, she was detained in Irkutsk Tseydler (local governor), who served the Tsarist secret prescription and do everything possible to get it back.Troubetzkoy had to sign a number of obligations that deprived her of simple human rights.Tseydler said, a trip to the husband of Princess can take place only on the stage, next to the hard labor.However, Catherine Trubetskaya was adamant.In the end, she went to her husband.
At the beginning of 1827 in Siberia, the Nerchinsk mines Troubetzkoy came after Alexander Muravyov and Maria Volkonskaia.Since then, the first profit wives of the Decembrists began his public activity.By year end, the mines came other women: Alexandra Yentaltseva Anna Rosen, Alexander Davydov, Natalia Fonvizin, Elizabeth Naryshkin, Camilla Ivashov, Praskovya Annenkov, Maria Yushnevsky.
Convicts "state criminals" were forbidden to write letters.The wives of the Decembrists established relationship with the relatives of prisoners.In the name of women came publications, including foreign ones.
arrived in Siberia women lived simply.They had to prepare the food yourself, wash, heat the oven.It is in these conditions the young aristocrats were able to understand the value of life.
Nikita Muravyov's wife, Alexandra, ignoring the danger, brought and handed over the works of Pushkin, dedicated Pushchin ("My first friend", "In Siberia").If during the search she found poetry, she would be in prison.
Alexander Muravyov lived in Siberia for long.In the winter, running on the flat to the children of her husband's chamber, she caught a cold and died soon.
was not in exile and two wives (Troubetzkoy and Ivasheva).Three women were widowed;They were allowed to come back after a general pardon in 1856.Two wives went to the Caucasus with their husbands (Naryshkin and Rosen).Three women from the liberated - returned after an amnesty in the European part of the country (Annenkov, Volkonskaia, Fonvizin).
Decembrists and their wives back after thirty years of exile for political conscious.His hatred of serfdom and autocracy are carried through all these years.
