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