Decembrist Trubetskoy biography
Mikhail Loris-Melikov Personal life of the military’s personal life has never been covered with a veil of secrets. At the time when Sergey was in Paris, his wedding with the daughter of the French migrants Ekaterina Laval took place. A portrait of Sergei and Ekaterina Trubetskoy woman could not please her beloved by the fact of pregnancy for a long period of time, and because of this she was forced to undergo treatment for infertility abroad.
The treatment gave the result, and the couple had 8 children –5 daughters and 3 sons, but only four of them managed to survive to adulthood. A link a few days before the uprising, Trubetskoy began to attend thoughts-sowing in the fact that there is a need for such radical actions. The result of these thoughts was the fact that on December 14, Sergey could not be seen on Senatorskaya Square, he decided that he did not want to join the Decembrists.
This act of a man caused the negative reaction of the participants in the movement, and they decided that Sergei was simply scared. However, the majority of the close -up of the prince spoke out in defense of Sergey, saying that his guilt in the breakdown of the conspiracy was the usual speculations of the envious people. After Nicholas I found out about the participation of Trubetskoy in the development of the uprising scheme, by order of the emperor the man was taken to the Winter Palace, where he had a personal conversation with Nicholas I, in which Sergey was threatened that his fate would be terrible.
Further, Trubetskoy was placed in the casemate and interrogated, the results of which led to the sentence of the death penalty. However, in the summer of the year, Sergey’s sentence was replaced by eternal hard labor. His wife Catherine expressed a desire to go into exile with her husband, and was adamant in her decision, despite the attempts of the imperial couple to dissuade her.
In honor of the coronation, the prince’s lifelong hard labor was reduced first to 20 years, and then they decided to limit themselves to 13 years. In the year, on the departure of hard labor, he settled in the village of Oyok. The wife of Sergey and his children was allowed to live in Irkutsk, where the prince had the opportunity to visit his family. The return from Siberia, by decision of the amnesty from Emperor Alexander II of September 3, was restored to the rights of the nobility, but the princely title was removed; Only his descendants by decree could use the above title.
Trubetskoy was not allowed to constantly live in Moscow, and the officer had to settle in Kyiv, where at that time his daughter Alexander and her husband lived. In the fall of the year, the man moved with them to Odessa. While traveling in Moscow, when representatives of the police allowed this, Sergey tried not to make new acquaintances, limiting the communication around the old friends and relatives, citing the fact that he has no desire to become the subject of curiosity of strangers.
One of the contemporaries of the officer characterized him as a good -natured and meek, deep humble and silent, slightly closed person. Sergei Trubetskoy in recent years at a time when the term of hard labor ended, Sergey settled in the Siberian village of Oyok. His family lived in Irkutsk, Sergey was very rare with them. In the year, the emperor made a decree that said that the children of the organizers of the uprising, who were sent to exile, will be able to study at the palace, but only if they agree to renounce the names of the fathers.
In old age, Sergei Trubetskoy, the former failed dictator refused the proposal of the emperor and his children became graduates of the Irkutsk Institute. Sergey spent the last period of his life in Moscow, where he passed away on December 4, due to weakened health. The grave of the Decembrist is located next to the Novodevichy Monastery. The memory of the Decembrist is still alive, thanks to the old photographs and descriptions of contemporaries.
The image of this hero was used in the book of Yuri Tynyanov “Kyuhl”, which is based on the biography of the poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, who also took part in the Decembrist uprising. In addition, the film “Decembrists” and “Star of captivating happiness” were shot about the prince. The grave of Sergei Trubetskoy three years ago on the screens was demonstrated by the military orientation drama "The Union of Salvation", the plot of which illuminated the activities of the underground movement of the Decembrists.
Sergey Trubetskoy was played by Russian actor Maxim Matveev.