decembrist in English
noun
1
a member of a group of Russian revolutionaries who in December 1825 led an unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. The leaders were executed and later came to be regarded as martyrs by the Left.
In August 1824 he was dismissed from the civil service for atheistic writings, and his seclusion at his mother's estate prevented him from taking part in the revolt of the Decembrists , with whom he sympathized.
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1. Polezhaev was arrested not long after the Decembrist uprising, not for participating in any Antimonarchist conspiracies, or even for his explicitly liberal poetry, but rather for writing Sashka, a ribald parody of Evgenii Onegin, The poet was later canonized by the likes of Alexander Herzen as a "dekabrist bez dekabria." Peschio demonstrates that Polezhaev's text was politically dangerous