Cholera Riot 1831

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CHOLERA RIOT 1831, disturbances by ordinary people connected with the appearance of cholera, a formerly unknown disease in St. Petersburg. The central events of the Cholera Revolt occurred on Sennaya Square and at Sennoy Market on 14 February 1831 when a crowd accused the market sanitary inspectors of spreading the disease, beating them and attempting to cleanse the city of all doctors. After vain efforts by the police to stop these disturbances, Emperor Nicolas I arrived, ordering the crowd to obey his hail, "On your knees, villains! Hats off!" One of the bas-reliefs on the pedestal of the monument to Nicolas I on St. Isaac's Square is devoted to the memory of this event.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Nicholas I, Emperor
Sennaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
St.Isaac's Square/Saint Petersburg, city
1831