Декабристы: История, судьба, биография

14 dekabri͡a 1825 goda - mi͡atezh na Senatskoĭ ploshchadi - odna iz i͡archaĭshikh stranit͡s russkoĭ istorii. Odnako do sikh por, spusti͡a 200 let, ne utikhai͡ut spory o prichinakh, plane, khode i itogakh vosstanii͡a. Bylo li ėto masshtabnym vystupleniem dvori͡an-edinomyshlennikov, stremivshikhsi͡a osushchestvitʹ gosudarstvennyĭ perevorot, - ili vsego lishʹ "proisshestviem", kak nazyvali vosstanie v ofit͡sialʹnykh istochnikakh? Priblizitʹsi͡a k ponimanii͡u fenomena dvizhenii͡a dekabristov, ne pribegai͡a k gotovym ideologicheskim traktovkam, pomogaet izuchenie biografiĭ ego uchastnikov. Ėta kniga posvi͡ashchena sudʹbam 120 dekabristov, osuzhdënnykh Verkhovnym ugolovnym sudom. V khode sledstvii͡a, kotorym rukovodil lichno imperator Nikolaĭ I, 117 mi͡atezhnikov priznalisʹ v sovershënnom prestuplenii, bolʹshinstvo iz nikh ozhidali ti͡urʹma, katorga i ssylka, pi͡atero byli prigovoreny k smertnoĭ kazni. Kto zhe byli ėti li͡udi, kogo iz nikh mi͡atezh vël k vershinam vlasti, a kto okazalsi͡a sluchaĭno vovlechën v vodovorot politicheskikh sobytiĭ? Kak skladyvalasʹ zhiznʹ dekabristov do i posle 1825 goda, kto iz nikh sumel preodoletʹ vse ti͡agoty nakazanii͡a, a kto ne vyderzhal surovykh ispytaniĭ i otchai͡alsi͡a? - ob ėtom v novoĭ knige izvestnogo peterburgskogo istorika Andzhei͡a Ikonnikova-Galit͡skogo.

December 14, 1825 — the riot on the Senate Square is one of the brightest pages of Russian history. However, 200 years later, there are still disputes about the causes, plan, course and outcome of the uprising. Was this a large-scale action by like—minded nobles who sought to carry out a coup d'etat, or just an "incident", as the uprising was called in official sources? Studying the biographies of its participants helps to get closer to understanding the phenomenon of the Decembrist movement without resorting to ready-made ideological interpretations. This book is dedicated to the fate of 120 Decembrists convicted by the Supreme Criminal Court. During the investigation, which was personally led by Emperor Nicholas I, 117 rebels confessed to the crime, most of them were awaiting prison, hard labor and exile, five were sentenced to death. Who were these people, which of them was led by the rebellion to the heights of power, and who was accidentally involved in the maelstrom of political events? How did the life of the Decembrists develop before and after 1825, which of them managed to overcome all the hardships of punishment, and who could not withstand the harsh trials and despaired? — this is in a new book by the famous St. Petersburg historian Andrzej Ikonnikov-Galitsky.