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Book/Printed Material Pis'mo Bestuzheva N.A. Письмо Бестужева Н.А.

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Title

  • Pis'mo Bestuzheva N.A.

Other Title

  • Письмо Бестужева Н.А.

Summary

  • The manuscript presented here is part of a collection of 78 letters written between 1838 and 1850 by Decembrists and their wives. The letters were written from places of hard labor and settlements in Siberia and are addressed to Iakov Dmitrievich Kazimirskii, a manager at the Petrovskii Factory. The writers include I.I. Pushchin, V.L. Davydov, A.I. Iakubovich, A.Z. Muraviev, N.A. Bestuzhev, V.V. Vadkovskii, A.P and M.K Iushnevskii, I.S. Povalo-Shveikovskii, E.I. Trubetskaia, S.G. Volkonskii, I.I. Gorbachevskii, M.F. Mit'kov, and E.P. Obolensky. The Decembrists were a group of Russian revolutionaries who led an unsuccessful uprising against tsarist authority in December 1825. They were primarily members of the upper classes with military backgrounds. After the suppression of the uprising, 289 Decembrists were put on trial. Five-the leaders -were executed; 31 were imprisoned; and the rest exiled to Siberia. Many wives of the Decembrists accompanied their husbands into banishment in Siberia. The collection is held in the Krasnoyarskskiy Krai Museum of Regional History and Folklife and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. The letters came to the museum in the 1930s from the Krasnoyarsk Regional Library as part of a collection of documents assembled by the famous bibliophile-merchant Gennadii Vasil'evich Iudin. Most of the letters were published in the book Sibirskie pis'ma dekabristov: 1838-1850 (Siberian letters of the Decembrists: 1838-1850), compiled by T.S. Komarova and published by the Krasnoyarsk Book Publishing House in 1987. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Bestuzhev, N. A. (Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich), 1791-1855.

Created / Published

  • Petrovskiĭ Zavod : [publisher not identified], 19 dekabri︠a︡ 1838 g.

Headings

  • -  Bestuzhev
  • -  ėtnografii︠a︡
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Zabaykalsky Krai
  • -  Petrovsk-Zabaykal'skiy
  • -  Бестужев
  • -  этнография

Notes

  • -  Original text at: Krasnoiarsk Krai Museum of Regional History and Folklife

Medium

  • p. : 12.7 x 21.0 cm ; paper, ink.

Source Collection

  • Letters from the Decembrist Revolt

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018686552

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bestuzhev, N. A. Pis'mo Bestuzheva N.A. [Petrovskiĭ Zavod: publisher not identified, 19 dekabri︠a︡ g, 1838] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018686552/.

APA citation style:

Bestuzhev, N. A. (1838) Pis'mo Bestuzheva N.A. [Petrovskiĭ Zavod: publisher not identified, 19 dekabri︠a︡ g] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018686552/.

MLA citation style:

Bestuzhev, N. A. Pis'mo Bestuzheva N.A. [Petrovskiĭ Zavod: publisher not identified, 19 dekabri︠a︡ g, 1838] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018686552/>.