Pushkin Decembrists biography

Alexander Pushkin escaped this fate, trusting the signs of fate ... that tragic winter of the year, when Emperor Alexander I died, and members of the secret communities decided to commit a revolution in Russia, Pushkin was in exile in Mikhailovsky. Upon learning of the plans of his close friends, the poet firmly decided to go to Petersburg to stand with them shoulder to shoulder during the uprising.

Alexander Sergeyevich ordered to prepare the wagon to the capital, and he went to say goodbye to his friends to the neighboring estate, to Trigorskoye. But then an inexplicable occurred ... On the way, Pushkin twice crossed the road, and upon returning to Mikhailovskoye, he found out that the servant appointed with him to go to St. Petersburg suddenly fell ill with a white fever.

The superstitious poet immediately recognized the signs of fate in these events and refused to travel to the capital. Even in the lyceum period among Pushkin’s comrades were future Decembrists. His close friends Ivan Pushchin, an active participant and organizer of the uprising on December 14, his beloved Kyuhl, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, who performed on Senate Square with weapons in his hands.

Pushkin was in a friendly correspondence with the leader of the left wing of the northern society K. Ryleyev, Khororsho knew one of the ideologists of Decembrism - Nikolai Turgenev. Davydov, S. Volkonsky, families of Raevsky, Orlovs. But all these personal ties are not as important as the poet’s work and the ideological role of this work in the Decembrists' movement.

Pushkin’s poems “Village”, “liberty”, “dagger”, a message to Chaadaev “Love, Hope, Quiet Glory”, his epigram for Arakcheev - were known to every Decembrist. Zhukovsky, your poems are located. ” Not only the Decembrists, but all the groups close to their ideology, were read out by the works of Pushkin. Walking opinion was that there was no “any competent warrant officer in the army”, who would not know by heart of these free-thinking creations.

Washed to the slogans of the era, these works, in turn, were powerful organizers of revolutionary ideology, tools of struggle. Pushkin was not a member of the secret society of the Decembrists, did not participate in either the uprising on December 14 on Senate Square, nor in the uprising of the Chernihiv regiment. But we can say without exaggeration that the freedom -loving poems of Pushkin fought in the ranks of the rebels and were active participants in the inner life of the conspiracy.

Pushkin-poet fell a significant role of the organizer of the Decembrists' belief system, and from this point of view, Pushkin can be called an active participant in the December uprising.