Wives of the Decembrists. Thousands of Miles to Love

8 hrs. 50 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Alekseyeva

Narrator Elizaveta Krupina

Description

The Decembrists’ uprising was brutally suppressed. The ringleaders were hanged, and the rest of the rebels from Senate Square were exiled to Siberia for hard labor. The nobles—honor and conscience of the Russian officer corps, the smartest, highly educated people—were in an instant cast down to the level of the most powerless convicts. Their epaulettes’ gold has been trampled into the mud, and all former merits are forgotten. They have left only their wives—just as humiliated and disgraced. But the wives retain the right—to loyalty and love that even the emperor cannot take away. And these pampered noble ladies, graduates of institutes for young noble girls, leave their children in the care of relatives and set off on the most insane journey in the history of mankind—into frozen Siberia to their husbands, to share with them all the weight of the tsar’s punishment… After thirty years, Tsar Alexander II permitted the Decembrists to return and live in any city except Moscow and St. Petersburg. But by then, almost no one was still alive…