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The Decembrists: Senate Square to Siberian Exile

The Decembrist revolt began on Senate Square in Saint Petersburg on 26 December 1825, when officers led about 3,000 men against the new tsar, and ended for its leaders in Siberian exile at Irkutsk, Chita and Petrovsky Zavod. The route follows the day of the uprising in the capital, then the long road east, where the exiles' wives followed them and won small concessions from Nicholas I. Dates are given in the modern calendar; the Siberian stops are towns, not exact prison sites.