HIS 241
Decembrists Paragraph Assignment

This is a view across Decembrists Square (with the Bronze Horseman in the center) towards St. Isaac's Cathedral.  At the time of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, the Square was called "Senate Square" because immediately to the rear of the square was the new Senate (government) building that had been erected in 1763.  The other end of the Square opened onto the Neva River.

This was only a few hundred yards from the Winter Palace.  The Decembrists were the start of Russia's long revolutionary movement.

Check the following websites with information about the Decembrists:

• Decembrists Museum (in Russian)
• Decembrists in Irkutsk
• The Decembrists of Siberia
• The Revolutions of Russia: The Accession of Nicholas I, 1825, The International Monthly Magazine, vol. 4, issue 5 (December 1851)
• Decembrist Revolt
• Wikipedia entry
• Larisa Ayrapetova, The Decembrists and The Russian Intelligentsia (student term paper)
• Muzei Dekabristov (in Russian) 
• There is also a lecture by the late Professor Michael Boro Petrovich available on the web on this page.