Peter Kakhovsky brief biography

Preobrazhensky Smolensk district of the Smolensk province. The son of a college assessor of Kakhovsky, a descendant of the impoverished Polish noble family, and N. Olenina from the Smolensk branch of the Olenins. He received his education at a noble boarding house at the University of Moscow, “in Russian, in German and French, he knows how to write and speak, he knows, history, geography and arithmetic.” In November, he became a junker of the 7th Jaeger regiment.

But for "noise and various disadvantages ... non -payment of money to confectionery shop and laziness to the service" was unclenched to ordinary and sent to the Caucasus to the Astrakhan cuirassier regiment. But already in November, for the difference in the service, he was produced in lieutenant. He resigned due to illness. B - made a trip to Europe.

He was very poor, was extremely lonely, without family ties and friends. Being a rebel by nature, he decisively did not accept Russian reality. Under the influence of modern political literature and revolutionary events in Spain, Portugal and Italy at the beginning of X became a convinced Republican. According to Kakhovsky himself, the image of his thoughts was influenced by the children's study of the “Greeks and the Romans”, “Recent coups in the boards of Europe” and staying abroad in - GG.

In the year he came to Petersburg, intending to go to Greece to fight for her independence. He made friends with K. Ryleev and, according to his recommendation, was adopted in the secret anti -government northern society of the Decembrists. Having a “ardent character, ready for self -confirmation,” K. Ryleev and freedom of love, “I will be always free in the chains.” Kakhovsky considered it necessary to destroy the autocratic power, the extermination of the entire royal dynasty and the establishment of the republic.

He joined the radical wing; He advocated the introduction of a republican form of government and for terrorist methods of struggle against autocracy. He led the revolutionary propaganda in the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment. Kakhovsky, as a completely lonely man, the Decembrists outlined the queen. Ryleyev was offered, having changed into a life-grenadier uniform, to get into the Winter Palace and kill the new Emperor Nicholas I, but not on behalf of society, but under the guise of a single terrorist; After some hesitation, he refused.

On the day of the uprising December 26, together with K. Ryleev and A. Yakubovich traveled around the barracks, figuring out the mood of the regiments, and then joined the rebellious parts on Senate Square. Deadly wounded the governor General of St. Petersburg M. Miloradovich and the commander of the Grenadier Regiment N. Steurler, who tried to persuade the rebels to disperse. After the defeat, he was arrested.

On the investigation, he kept courageously. From the Peter and Paul Fortress sent several messages to Nicholas I with strict criticism of the situation in Russia in the reign of Alexander I and the shortcomings of the state system. The Supreme Criminal Court was recognized as one of the main criminals and was convicted of the death penalty after quartering, which Nicholas I replaced with hanging.

Together with the four other sentences, he was executed on July 13 on July 13 on the Kronwerk of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Breaking off the loop due to the inexperience of the executioner, he was hanged secondly. Literature Bazanov, V. Essays on Decembrist literature. Budaev, D. Verzhbitsky, V. Orlov, V. Kudinov, G. Schegolev, P.