Bestuzhev-Ryumin M. P. (1801-1826), decembrist

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BESTUZHEV-RYUMIN Mikhail Pavlovich (1801-26), Decembrist, Podporuchik (Sub-Lieutenant) of Poltavsky Infantry Regiment in 1824. Educated at home, he made his service in the Kavalergardsky Regiment in 1818-20 and the Semenovsky Life Guard Regiment in March-December 1820. After the regiment had been disbanded (see Semenovsky Story 1820), he was moved to Ukraine. A member of the Southern Society (1823), he was a leader of the rebellion of the Chernigovsky Infantry Regiment. He was arrested on January 3, 1826, brought to St. Petersburg, and incarcerated in Kronverskaya Curtain of Peter and Paul Fortress. Sentenced to death by the Supreme Criminal Court, he was hanged on the rampart of Peter and Paul Fortress on 13 July 1826. Monuments to Bestuzhev-Ryumin and the other 4 Decembrists were erected on Dekabristov Island where they had been supposedly buried.

Reference: Киянская О. И. Декабрист Михаил Бестужев-Рюмин // ОИ. 2001. № 6. С. 3-23.

A. D. Margolis. Bestuzhev-Ryumin Mikhail Pavlovich
Margolis Alexander Davidovich
Петропавловская крепость
Петербург декабристов / Сост. А.Д.Марголис. СПб., 2000
Киянская О. И. Декабрист Михаил Бестужев-Рюмин // Отеч. история, 2001 Cavalier Guards Regiment
Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment
Semenovsky Story 1820
St. Peter and Paul fortress
St. Peter and Paul fortress
Kronverk (Crownwork)