Day #49: The Decemberist exiles
May 28th 2013 Today I visited the preserved home of Prince Sergei Volkonsky, one of the Decemberist exiles. These were men and their families who were sent to Siberia as punishment for their involvement in the Decemberist plot to overthrow the Tsar in the late 1800s.
The home very much focused on the experience of Volkonsky's wife Maria, who followed him into exile along with their children, and in fact
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