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Decembrist

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De·cem·brist  (d-smbrst)
n.
A participant in the unsuccessful conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I of Russia in December 1825.
Decembrist
one of those who conspired to overthrow Russian Czar Nicholas I in December, 1825. Also Dekebrist.
See also: Russia
one of those who conspired to overthrow Russian Czar Nicholas I in December, 1825. Also Dekebrist.
See also: Politics
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At the time when the elder brother, with a mass of debts, married Princess Varya Tchirkova, the daughter of a Decembrist without any fortune whatever, Alexey had given up to his elder brother almost the whole income from his father's estate, reserving for himself only twenty-five thousand a year from it.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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