Prince Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy was one of the organizers of the Decembrist movement. Close to Nikita Mikhailovich Muravyov in his views, he was declared the group's leader on the eve of the Decemb
Trubetskoy in the 1830s, by Nikolay Bestuzhev
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