Muravyev-Apostol S.I. (1795-1826), decembrist

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MURAVYEV-APOSTOL Sergey Ivanovich (1795, St. Petersburg - 1826), Decembrist, Lieutenant Colonel (1820). He was born in the house of Archpriest A.A. Samborsky (not preserved). From December of 1810 studied at the Institute of the Communications Engineers (115 Fontanka River Embankment). Took part in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns of 1813-14. In 1815-20 served in the Semenovsky Life Guard Regiment in St. Petersburg, lived in officers' quarters on Zagorodny Avenue (not preserved). At the Muravyev-Apostol flat Rescue Union was established in February 1816. In 1817-18 a member of the Masonic Lodge of Three Virtues. From 1818 one of the leaders of Union of Welfare (member and guardian of its board). After the disturbances in the Semenovsky Regiment, Muravyev-Apostol was transferred to the Poltava Infantry Regiment in Ukraine in November of 1820. From May 1822 - commander of the Chernigovsky Infantry Regimental Battalion. One of the leaders of the Secret South Society. On 25 December 1825 he headed the insurrection of the Chernigovsky Infantry Regiment in the region of Kiev; after the uprising was crushed, he was delivered to St. Petersburg and imprisoned in the Secret House of Alexeevsky Ravelin of Ss. Peter-and-Paul Fortress. The Supreme Criminal Court sentenced him to death by hanging and he was executed on 13 July 1826 on the Wall of the Kronverk of Peter and Paul Fortress. Monuments were placed on the execution ground of Muravyev-Apostol and four other Decembrists and their probable burial place on Decembrists' Island.

References: Эйдельман Н. Я. Апостол Сергей: Повесть о С. Муравьеве-Апостоле. 3-е изд. М., 1988; Петербург декабристов. СПб., 2000 (ук.).

A. D. Margolis. Muravyev-Apostol Sergey Ivanovich
Samborsky Andrey Afanasievich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 115
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city
Эйдельман Н. Я. Апостол Сергей: Повесть о С. Муравьеве-Апостоле. 3-е изд. М., 1988
Петербург декабристов / Сост. А.Д.Марголис. СПб., 2000 Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment
Alexeevsky Ravelin
Kronverk (Crownwork)