Konstantin Gustavovich Igelström Russian Decembrist

Decembrist revolt

The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising took place in Imperial Russia on 14 December , 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession...

 from the noble Swedish family of Igelström

Igelström

Igelström is the surname of a Swedish noble family from Nylödöse. The earliest reference dates back to 1529, with Bengt Haraldsson being the oldest of known ancestors. The surname Igelström originated thanks to Harald Bengtsson in 1645 and was registered in the List of Swedish noble families in 1647...

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Konstantin Igelstrom was born in the city of Shumsk

Shumsk

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 on 8 May 1799. He graduated from the Cadets Corps in 1816 and was made captain in 1825.

Founder and head of the secret Society of Military Friends, who initiated the protest of the Livland Pioneer Battalion, arrested on 27 December 1825 and put under surveillance in Białystok. The military court sentenced Igelstrom to death, but the highest decree of Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I , was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometers...

 of 15 April 1827 deprived him of all nobility titles and condemned to penal servitude during 10 years in Siberia

Siberia

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. After serving the sentence, he was prohibited from visiting Moscow

Moscow

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 or Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and settled in the city of Taganrog

Taganrog

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 in 1843, where he worked as the assistant to the supervisor of the Taganrog's Customs' bonded warehouse

Bonded warehouse

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. He died on 11 November 1851 and was buried at the old cemetery in Taganrog.