Pavel Pestel
Decembrists
.
Early life
Pestel came from a
Speransky Ivan Pestel and his governor in Irkutsk Nikolai Treskin were accused in bribery and in the corrupt regime in Siberia and resigned with shame.[2][3]
In 1805-1809, Pavel Pestel studied in
Tulchin, where the enlightened general Pavel Kiselyov
welcomed liberal-minded officers.
Decembrist
In 1816 Pestel became a member of the
imperial family initially. In 1818 Pestel joined a more liberal secret society called the Union of Prosperity without regicide plans. In March 1821 he established and became the leader of the Southern Society of the Decembrists. Pestel advocated merging the Northern Society of the Decembrists
with the former and travelled to Saint Petersburg in 1824 to try to make that happen.
Starting in 1821, Pavel Pestel worked on a project of social and economic
privileges
, and the granting of political rights to males over 20 years of age.
Pestel was a staunch advocate of a
judicial powers. In 1825 Pavel Pestel conducted negotiations with the Polish Patriotic Society
], discussing the possibility of joint revolutionary actions.
On 13 December 1825 (the day before the Decembrists came out in open revolt in Saint Petersburg) Pavel Pestel was arrested in
Emperor Nicholas I. He gave evidence against many Decembrists "to save their names for history" and they were detained because of him. But he did not know the real history of the Decembrist societies. For example, there is an opinion now, that just the Ordain of Russian knights, linked to Alexander von Benckendorff, was the main secret organization and not Pestel's Salvation Union. His and Bestuzhev-Ryumin's evidence had the effect of encouraging the members of the Trial Committee (some of them relatives of Decembrists or even the members of secret societies) to hang Pestel and Bestuzhev-Ryumin to stop their evidence.[4][5]
He was hanged with four other Decembrists in the Peter and Paul Fortress a few months later.
Descendants
Descendants of Pestel's family live in Australia and Great Britain.
See also
References
- ^ "Немцы в России — Немцы на государственной и военной службе (1)".
- ^ Bruce Lincoln - The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians. 2007
- ^ "Павел Пестель - Лекции online". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
- ^ Pestel during trial. П.И. Пестель на следствии
- ^ Paul Pestel
External links
- Russkaya Pravda - project of Constitution by Pavel Pestel - in Russian
- (in English) Pestel, Pavel. Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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