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
The Decembrist uprising was the one and only attempt at implementing liberal reform in Russia in the nineteenth century; it would take until 1905 for the next revolution to come to pass.
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
He had a revolutionary streak in his nature, as his Ode to Liberty and other bits of verse and his intimacy with the Decembrist rebels show.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
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