Decembrist revolt
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The Decembrist revolt was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire. It took place in Saint Petersburg on 26 December 1825, following the death o
Decembrists at Peter's Square (Georg Wilhelm Timm, 1853)
Decembrist revolt, a painting by Vasily Perov showing the killing of Mikhail Miloradovich by Pyotr Kakhovsky
Monument dedicated to the uprising in Vasylkiv
Monument to the Decembrists at the execution site in Saint Petersburg
Konstantin Pavlovich was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir presumptive for most of his elder brother Alexander I's reign,
Decembrist revolt
…place in Saint Petersburg on 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1825, following the death of Emperor Alexander I. Alexander's brother and heir-presumptive Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich privately renounced his claim to the throne two years prior to Alexander's sudden death on 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1825. The next in the line of…
Portrait by George Dawe 1834
Grand Duke Konstantin of Russia, son of Emperor Paul
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Anna Feodorovna
Portrait of Konstantin at the Battle of Novi, a Russian victory