Crossword clues for decembrist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decembrist \De*cem"brist\, n. (Russian Hist.) One of those who conspired for constitutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.
He recalls the history of the decembrists . . . that
gallant band of revolutionists.
--G. Kennan.
Wiktionary
a. According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists. n. A participant in or sympathizer with the wikipedia:Decembrist revolt.
Usage examples of "decembrist".
Another officer, the Decembrist Mikhail Lunin, was well known for his displays of the free will.
Mikhail Orlov, an old school friend and fellow officer from 1812, who was well connected to the main Decembrist leaders in the south.
At this stage the Decembrist movement was a small and secret circle of conspirators.
Masonic Lodge in Kiev -a common means of entry into the Decembrist movement - where he also met the young Decembrist leader, Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel.
In this sense she was very different from Alexandra Muraviev, the wife of the Decembrist Nikita Muraviev, who came from a rather less aristocratic background than Maria Volkonsky.
She shared this residence with Katya Trubetskoi, another young princess who had followed her Decembrist husband to Siberia.
Some of the Decembrist exiles settled in the countryside and married local girls.
Maria was immediately accepted into the official circles of the new governor, Muraviev-Amursky, who made no secret of his sympathy for the Decembrist exiles and looked upon them as an intellectual force for the development of Siberia.
Maria had a love affair with the handsome and charismatic Decembrist exile Alessandro Poggio, the son of an Italian nobleman who had come to Russia in the 1770s.
A distant cousin of the Decembrist, Tolstoy was extremely proud of his Volkonsky heritage.
Sergei Volkonsky, the grandson of the Decembrist, recalled nameday parties that dragged on until dawn.
In 1899 he was employed by Prince Sergei Volkonsky, the grandson of the famous Decembrist, who had just been appointed by the Tsar as Director of the Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg.
Among the Slavophiles, the Decembrist exiles had the status of martyrs.
During his own journey to Siberia, in 1850, his convoy had been met by the Decembrist wives in the Tobolsk transit camp.
Dostoevsky wrote to one of these Decembrist wives, Natalia Fonvizina, with the first clear statement of the new faith he had found from his revelation in the prison camp at Omsk.