#the decembrist

[katarinas-redemption]

"When you love someone, you have no control. That's what love is. Being powerless."

#the blacklist #raymond reddington #raymond reddington quotes #james spader #the decembrist #2.08

[microcosme11]

Movie poster for Union of Salvation

I love this poster. Union of Salvation (2019) is a movie about the Decembrists, of whom I know almost nothing. The movie has great costumes, handsome men, but also looks depressing as hell.

#Russian film #movie posters #Russian veterans of the Napoleonic wars #Decembrist uprising #I am not seeing it due to the horror of the whole thing

[madd-khan]

Попытка создать флуд с участниками больше чем один по фд "Союз спасения"! Фанбаза союза совсем небольшая (и полуживая), но я не теряю надежды! Отзовитесь😫

#союз спасения #decembrist #union of salvation

[russia-libertaire]

The Decembrists

'The sudden death of Alexander I, on 19 November 1825, faced the secret societies with a sudden and grave dilemma. They had no fully matured plan of action, but if they were going to act at all this was the ideal moment, especially since there was some confusion over the succession: Konstantin, the next in line, had orally renounced the throne but never confirmed his intention in writing. The conspirators had little support among the common people or even among rank-and-file soldiers, for whom their ideas had no resonance. In the end on 14 December, when Konstantin's renunciation was confirmed and his younger brother Nicholas was preparing to take the oath, the Northern Society [of the Union of Welfare] drew up such battalions as they could muster on Senate Square and declared for Konstantin. The officers deliberately decieved their men into thinking that Konstantin would abolish serfdom and improve soldiers' terms of service. The leaders lacked all conviction or sense of direction. Trubetskoi, appointed provisional "dictator," simply disappeared and was later found to have taken refuge in the Austrian embassy. General Miloradovich, governor-general of St. Petersburg, whom Nicholas had sent to Parley with the rebel troops, was shot and killed, and eventually Nicholas reluctantly gave orders to disperse the insurgent units with artillery. When the cannons opened fire, the soldiers fled the square. The Southern Society mobilized some troops which at one stage were on the point of attacking Kiev, but were swiftly dealt with by a cavalry detachment. The fiasco of December 1825 was a critical moment in Russia's evolution. The Decembrists were nobles and army officers who tried to act as if the service state wanted genuine service and as if civil society really existed. Actually it did, among their tiny elite, but that was precisely what cut them off from the mass of people. Vacillating between the empire which has raised them up and the people they wished to serve (however paternalistically), they could devise no sensible political course. When plunged into action in spite of themselves, they had no confidence in themselves and could not summon sufficient seriousness of purpose or popular support to achieve anything.'

Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking

#decembrists #union of welfare #secret societies #conspiracy

[illustratus]

Nicholas I before the unit formation of the Life Guards of the Sapper Battalion in the courtyard of the Winter Palace on 14 December, 1825 (Decembrist Revolt)

by Vasily Maksutov

#nicholas i #winter palace #courtyard #decembrist revolt #art #history #russia #st petersburg #saint petersburg #russian #emperor #europe #vasily maksutov

[ragamuffingunnar]

@all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual tagged me to list five favorite songs by some of my favorite bands

The Dear Hunter

Mustard Gas

Blood Of The Rose

His Hands Matched His Tongue

Mandala

Wait

Lost Dog Street Band

Can't Get Away From Yourself

Oblivion

What Keeps Me Up Now

Oh Dear Brother

Terrible and True

Silver Mt Zion

Mountains Made Of Steam

American Motor Over Smoldered Fields

Built Than Burnt (Hurrah! Hurrah!)

Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)

Take Away These Early Grave Blues

and one more because I'm insufferable;

The Decemberists

The Bagman's Gambit

The Hazards Of Our Love 4 (The Drowned)

Sleepless

My Mother Was Chinese Trapeze Artist

The Legionaries Lament

do it if you want etc etc @marklanegan, @discogoth, @flamejob, @mustybooksmelll, @hickorywind, @nitebloom, @beckierubin, @kingon33

#these all feel really on the nose for me idk #yes hello remember when the decembrists were the big thing bc i do #about zeit #text #music

[jewfrogs]

spotify will suggest what i must generously refer to as “music” in the “album radio” after i listen to the mountain goats and itll be simply the cruelest sounds the human body can produce. unending. if i have to hear even a single second of an AJJ song i start rending my clothes to shreds

#just because i like the mountain goats doesnt mean i like other music like the mountain goats #i dont like ajj i dont like neutral milk hotel i dont like rilo kiley i dont like the decembrists i dont like mel blum. #i do like the magnetic fields. those ones are good #ribbits

[annebrontesrequiem]

Similarities between the Decembrists and the June Rebellion discuss

#don't ask me why I made this post #but like... I think there's some similarities actually #and some differences very obviously #but like... big brain history moment #history #decembrists #june rebellion #bern speaks

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 4 – From France to Russia, 1812-1917, 2

The Uses of History, 4 – From France to Russia, 1812-1917, 2

Napoleon died in exile in 1821 on the small British-held island of St. Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. The Emperor was dead, but his legend was not, nor were the enormous repercussions of his revolutionary legacy. Napoleon had self-servingly but not entirely wrongly advertised himself as the stabilizer of Europe and its liberator all at the same time. To a considerable degree,…

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#Charles X #Decembrist Revolt - Russia #French Revolution #Louis XVIII #Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #Revolution #Tsar Alexander I #Tsarism

[mtvunplugged1996]

Pushkin's To Chaadayev (my favorite). Translation by me, from April of 2022.

#poetry #pushkin #the decembrists #mine #:) #writing woes

[hwjegts4w]

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#reauthorized #Decembrist #self-acquisition #witch #diosgenin #lordy #weazen #Giraffidae #yodeling #stercorol #breastbones #evictee #foxie #nonforeign #geomantical #world-contracting #curstness #marginalia #harborage #briolettes

[tak-byvayet]

#i really want to talk to whoever names the spotify genres #i get stomp and holler every year and i have no fuckin idea what it is exactly #i feel like its vaguely associated with like the decembrists and mumford & sons? #and while i am very much an indie folk bitch i have never gone for either of those bands

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

The music video of Arcade Fire's "Suburbs" is a very specific type of nostalgia. She is like a sister to me.

#i remember staying up late watching that and the one for the decembrist's 'this is why we fight' on a damn LOOP #when i was like... 12 #and by watch i mean i ripped them from youtube at the library and loaded them onto my sandisk sansa

[russia-libertaire]

The Union of Salvation

'The first Russian secret society, the Union of Salvation, began with a restrictive and nonimperial concept of the nation: its initial aim was "resistance to the Germans in the Russian state service." However, it soon broadened its agenda and turned to promoting the "welfare of Russia" by advancing the idea of regulating serfdom, or possibly abolishing it and transforming the autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. This was the first time a political movement had been created in Russia with such an ambitious aim, and how it was to be accomplished was never really settled. To give the movement's ideas wider currency, the Union of Salvation turned itself into the Union of Welfare, with a public arm devoted, like the masons, to philanthropy, education, justice, and morality. These were laid out in a Green Book, which bound every member to seek public office if possible, but in any case to promote the aims of the union through personal example, practical activity, and the denunciation of official abuses. Members were required to be male, Christian, nonserf, and Russian. The exclusion of serfs was characteristic … the Union was unambiguously elitist, as its concept of citizenship implied. The Green Book did not recommend freeing the serfs, merely treating them humanely on the grounds that "subordinates are also people." The members of the Union later became known as Decembrists, because of the attempted coup in 1825 which grew out of their activity. But most of them, even those in its secret wing, had no definite political strategy in mind. For the most part, if they took its ideals seriously, they did so by trying to live out its precepts in everyday life. As Iurii Lotman has shown, they were trying to overcome the duality which existed between the Enlightenment culture in which they had been educated and the reality of life at court and on their estates, where most relationships were unadornedly hierarchical. They did not so much reject social etiquette as try to behave as if they really felt the sentiments normally expressed only for convention's sake. Many of them rejected the prevailing patriarchal notions of family life, seeing marriage not mainly as a means of perpetuating the rod (kin), but rather as a partnership of two equal adults joined by mutual affection and committed to the humane upbringing of children. In reaction against hierarchy and frivolity, they practiced an intense cult of sincerity and friendship among equals. The poet Aleksandr Pushkin grew up in this environment, and although he was never a Decembrist himself, his early poetry celebrated precisely those ideals. They were part of the atmosphere in which young nobles lived; the main significance of the movement was that its members tried to practice them consistently even in a discouraging environment.'

Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking

#union of salvation #union of welfare #decembrists #secret society #secret societies #pushkin

[dbssh]

positively lost me by the rave-ups and starwatcher by the decemberists!

positively lost me : ok i really like this | definetly will be listening to more from this artist!!!

starwatcher: it’s okay | kinda catchy | its very decembrist-ey which isnt bad but yk i can only listen to one prolific indie folk band with that lyrical style and repetitive sound and i choose the side of John Darnielle

#red.reply #that last bit is a JOKE #the decembrists are fine theyre just not super for me idk. they just exist in my head in a similar space to tmg and i sold my soul already #i like them well enough though im just never like yknow what i should do? listen to more decembrists #i do really enjoy the first rec tho i wanna hear more of what this bands got going on

[dostoyevsky-official]

"za wolność naszą i waszą" is a polish motto, "for your freedom and ours," created by the polish underground in the 1830s and gaining widespread popularity in the polish uprising of 1831, when poland was occupied by the russian empire, in response to the russian constitutionalist decembrist uprising of 1825. they understood that if the decembrists had succeeded in bringing about a free russia, poland would have been freed, too. in the 20th century, it was used by jewish fighters in the warsaw ghetto, and gained massive popularity due to its use by soviet, and then eastern bloc dissidents. it continues to be used as a slogan of the russian opposition

#a propos of rest in power