Russian Conspirators in Siberia: A Personal Narrative - Softcover

Rosen, Andreas Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904027431 ISBN 13: 9781904027430

Verlag: Elliott & Thompson Limited, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

...After many false and unjust judgments of us Dekabrists, and also of our opponents, have been sent forth to the world, the truth and nothing but the truth must be told. Even in our own days,...so curious an episode from the history of the past, brought out in all its details, cannot fail to be interesting, - in narrating which it is hoped that the author will be exonerated from all wish to do more than give a true and faithful account of the trials and struggles endured by himself and his friends. Following Napoleon's defeat, a generation of young Russian officers were acutely conscious of the backward social and political conditions in their own country, compared to those in France. Taking advantage of the confusion after Alexander I's sudden death, on 14th December 1825 the officer-conspirators gathered their troops in St Petersburg to demand, among other things, a constitutional monarchy. The revolt's suppression was brutal: executions, hard labour and perpetual exile for the 121 ringleaders, many of whom belonged to Russia's wealthiest and most influential families. But thanks in part to the wives who followed them, the Decembrists maintained coherence as a group, and those who survived for the new Tsar's amnesty in 1856 returned home as living legends. The Estonian Baron Rosen was scarcely more than a bystander at the events of December 1825, but he was punished alongside the ringleaders and shared their fate. His account of the rebellion itself, of the years in Siberia and his subsequent exile, remains the best primary source for what happened. First published in his native German in 1869 (and in English in 1872), this vivid, accurate memoir stands as a fascinating precursor to the testaments of later political prisoners such as Nadezhda Mandelstam, Evgenia Ginzburg, Solzhenitsyn and Havel.

Biografía del autor:

John de Falbe has written an introduction for this new edition. He is the author of two novels, The Glass Night (1995) and The Bequest (2003). He is also a director of John Sandoe (Books) Ltd, an independent bookshop in London.

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• Verlag: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904027431
• ISBN 13: 9781904027430
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280