Dekabristn.
/ˈdɛkəbrɪst/ One who took part in an uprising which occurred in St. Petersburg on 26 December 1825, on the accession of the Emperor Nicholas I.
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1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.)
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 649/1 The unfortunate conspiracy of the Dekabrists.
1903 Daily Chron. 22 Oct. 3/2 A reactionary policy led to a series of conspiracies—notably that of the Decabrists—which closed the door to enlightened government for many years to come.
1920 19th Cent. Sept. 420 Russian Women gives a description of the wives of the Dekabrists, aristocrats but our first revolutionists.
1925 Glasgow Herald 5 Mar. 4 Prince Wolkonsky, as became a descendant of a Dekabrist, was a liberal.
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