Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin
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Mikhail Pavlovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Russian: , June 04 N.S. 1801 - July 25 N.S. 1826) - was a Russian officer, one of the organizers of Decembrist revolt. He was the youngest of the five hanged decembrists.
Biography
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin was born in village Kudryoshky (Кудрёшки) of Gorbatov uezd, Nizhny Novgorod gubernia on June 04 N.S. 1801 (according to other sources 1803). His father was the Mayor (городничий) of town Gorbatov, owner of 640 serfs and a muslin factory. By the standards of the time Bestizhev-Ryumins belonged to medium-level nobility.Mikhail started his military career in 1818 at the Horse-guard regiment, then at Semenovsky regiment, after uprising of Semenovsky regiment he was transferred to Poltava infantry regiment, in 1824 he became a podporuchik.
In 1823 he joined the South Society of decembrists and became one of the main assistants to Sergey Muravyov-Apostol on Vasil'kovskaya Uprava of the South society. He was a participant of conferences of South society in Kiev and Kamenka, negotiated with secret Polish society. He was the author of the Decembrist's Proclamation that was read to the troops and local peasants. He also was known to dress in the clothes of lower classes and agitate people to revolt against the monarchy. Bestuzhev-Ryumin was the most extreme republican among the decembrists, he insisted on the need to execute the emperor and the entire emperor's family.
Some authors write that contemporaries considered him as a clown and even suggested that Bestuzhev-Ryumin might be an inspiration for the hero of Khlestakov - the main character of Nikolai Gogol's farce The Inspector General.
On December 27 1825 Mikhail was an assistant to Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, who headed the uprising of Chernigov regiment. Mikhail was caught on January 3 1826, transferred to Saint Petersburg on 20 January. He was one of the five, sentenced to quartering, but later this sentence was replaced with hanging. He was executed in a Peter and Paul Fortress on July 25, 1826 and interred with the rest of the five in a secret grave on Goloday Island in Saint Petersburg.
External links
- [Biography of Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin] - in Russian
- [Another biography of Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin] - in Russian
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