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Mihael BestuzhevDecembrist
Date of Birth: 22.09.1800
Country:  Russia |
Content:
- Early Life and Naval Career
- - 1817-1819: Served in Kronstadt
- - 3 May 1825: Promoted to Staff Captain
- Imprisonment and Exile
Early Life and Naval Career
Naval Education- 1812: Entered the Naval Cadet Corps
- 10 June 1814: Promoted to Midshipman
- 1 March 1817: Promoted to Lieutenant
- 22 March 1822: Promoted to Lieutenant Commander
Naval Service
- 1817: Served on the ship "Don't Touch Me" to retrieve the corps of M.S. Vorontsov in France
- 1817-1819: Served in Kronstadt
- 1819-1821: Served in ArkhangelskRole in the Decembrist Uprising
Membership and Activities
- 1824: Joined the Northern Society
- 22 March 1825: Transferred to the Leib-Guard Moscow Regiment as a Captain
- 3 May 1825: Promoted to Staff Captain
Participation in the Uprising- 14 December 1825: Arrested on Senate Square
- 18 December 1825: Imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress
Conviction and Punishment
Trial and Sentence
- Convicted under the Second Category
- 10 July 1826: Sentenced to eternal hard labor, later reduced to 20 years
Imprisonment and Exile
- 7 August 1826: Sent to Shlisselburg Fortress- 28 September 1827: Sent to Siberia
- 13 December 1827: Arrived at the Chita prison
- September 1830: Arrived at the Petrovsky Zavod
- 8 November 1832: Sentence reduced to 15 years
- 14 December 1835: Sentence further reduced to 13 years
Settlements
Settlement in Selenginsk
- 10 July 1839: Granted settlement in Selenginsk, Irkutsk Province
- 27 July 1839: Left Petrovsky Zavod
- 1 September 1839: Arrived in Selenginsk
Life in Selenginsk
- Established a household
- Married Maria Nikolaevna Selivanova
- Had three children: Elena, Nikolai, and Maria
Later Years
Amnesty and Return to Moscow
- 26 August 1856: Granted amnesty
- 22 April 1862: Permitted to live permanently in Moscow
- June 1867: Left Selenginsk after his wife's death
- Moved to Moscow
Legacy and Burial
- Author of memoirs
- Died in Moscow
- Buried in Vagankovsky Cemetery
