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Sutherland, Christine.

The Princess of Siberia : the story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist exiles / Christine Sutherland.

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ©1984.

viii, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

This portrait of Maria and members of the Decembrist circle is based on the unpublished memoirs and diaries of the princess, which the Volkonsky family made available to the author. Beautiful, cultivated, and the daughter of a hero of the Napoleonic wars, Maria Volkonsky had been married only one year when in 1825 the tsar sentenced her husband, Decembrist leader Sergey Volkonsky to life imprisonment in Siberia. Despite her family's and the tsar's opposition, Maria was determined to join her husband in exile. She was more than halfway there when the tsar decreed that she could never return from Siberia.

Volkonskai︠a︡, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, kni︠a︡gini︠a︡, 1805-1863.

Decembrists -- Biography.

Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.

Decembrists -- Biography.

Russia -- History -- December Uprising, 1825.

Biographies.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-329) and index.

Pt. 1. The Raevskys -- Kiev, the Crimea, and Pushkin -- The liberals gather at Kamenka -- Sergei -- The doomed conspiracy -- The fortress -- The journey -- Point of no return : Irkutsk -- Pt. 2. Descent into Hell -- The ladies of Chita -- Petrovsky Zavod -- Misha and Elena -- The princess of Siberia -- Going home.

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