Tag Archive: 0Decembrist Revolt

Back in December 2013, I wrote about the ill-fated Decembrist Revolt.  What I hadn’t realised at the time was that the plot to stage the coup was uncovered by an Englishman, one John Sherwood (1798–1867). He was born in Greenwich, but left England as a child to go to Russia with his father, a mechanic who […]

On the morning of 14 December 1825, a group of reformist Russian army officers led a group of about 3000 soldiers onto Senate Square in St Petersburg in an attempt to force the Senate to veto the accession of Nicholas I and proclaim a constitutional monarchy.  But the senators had already sworn allegiance to Nicholas, […]