Decembrist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Decembrist
1880–85; translation of Russian dekabríst. See December, -ist
Example Sentences
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The 1825 Decembrist revolt against Czar Nicholas I was inspired in part by the American Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Even as the Decembrist uprising failed, another revolt was being fought in the heartland of “Western Civilization” itself: Greece.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
A century of rebellions, from the Decembrist uprising in 1825 to the revolution of 1905, ensured that a steady supply of political dissidents were carted across the Urals by a progressively more paranoid state.
From Economist ● Aug. 18, 2016
Even further back, 1826: Nicholas I, after crushing the Decembrist rebels, invited their exiled supporter, the poet Aleksandr Pushkin, in for a chat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
Griboyedov, the author of Gore ot Uma, a writer of a very different order, although not a Decembrist himself, is a product of that period.
From An Outline of Russian Literature by Maurice Baring
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