This is the story of the Decembrist revolt of 1825, in which a group of army officers tried to change the course of Russian history by overturning the country's traditional systems of autocratic ...

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Confusion around the succession led to two connected revolts. The first 'Decembrist Revolt' came on December 5, 1825, in St. Petersburg; the second occurred on December 26, 1825, when more ...