Pestel P.I., (1793-1926), Decembrist

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PESTEL Pavel Ivanovich (1793-1826, St. Petersburg), Decembrist, colonel. In 1810-11 studied at Page Corps. Took part in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns of 1813-14. Served in Lithuanian Life Guard Regiment (1811-14) and Cavalry Guard Regiment (1814-1819). From 1821 - Commander of Vyatsky Infantry Regiment in Ukraine. In St. Petersburg lived in the house of his parents (26 Fontanka River Embankment), at Demutov's Inn (40 Moika River Embankment), in officers’ quarters of the Cavalry Guard Regiment (41 Shpalernaya Street). Member of the Masonic Lodge of Three Virtues (1816-17). Member of Rescue Union, Union of Welfare (member of its board), an organiser and Head of the Southern Society, the author of a potential constitution Russkaya Pravda. He was arrested on 13 December 1825 in Tulchin, delivered to St. Petersburg, kept in the Secret House of Alexeevsky Ravelin, Nikolskaya and Kronverkskaya Curtains of Peter and Paul Fortress. The Supreme Criminal Court sentenced him to death by hanging and he was executed 13 July 1826 on the Wall of the Kronverk of Peter and Paul Fortress. Monuments were placed on the execution ground of Pestel and four other Decembrists and their probable burial place on Decembrists' Island. In 1923 a Street (former Panteleimonovskaya Street) was named after Pestel.

References: Петербург Decembristов. СПб., 2000 (ук.); Киянская О. И. Павел Пестель: Офицер, разведчик, заговорщик. М., 2002.

A. D. Margolis. Pestel Pavel Ivanovich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Shpalernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 41
Киянская О. И. Павел Пестель: Офицер, разведчик, заговорщик. М., 2002
Петербург декабристов / Сост. А.Д.Марголис. СПб., 2000 Page Corps
Page Corps
Cavalier Guards Regiment
Demoute's Traktir
Demoute's Traktir
Alexeevsky Ravelin
St. Peter and Paul fortress
St. Peter and Paul fortress
Kronverk (Crownwork)