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Vospominaniia Bestuzhevykh
[ Memories of the Bestuzhevs]
Comp., afterword, and comm. by M.K. Azadovskii
Reprint ed
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2005
891 p
Serie: Literaturnye Pamiatniki
Hardcover. 16 x 22 cm
ISBN: 502020263702
Language: RussianThis is a reprint edition of the book published in 1951. It includes memoirs by and about the Bestuzhev brothers, who were Decembrists, participants of the rebellion of 1825: Aleksandr (1797-1837) , Mikhail (1800-71), Nikolai (1791-1855) and Petr (1808-40). Aleksandr Bestuzhev (literary pseudonym Marlinskii) was a very popular Russian writer of the 1820s who inspired many writers of the next generation: Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoi, and others. Nikolai Bestuzhev was one of the hundred Decembrists exiled to Siberia after their rebellion. From the very first moment of his sentence he conceived and brought to life a plan to paint portraits of his brothers-in-arms. Comments, afterword, bibliography, list of illustrations.
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