description: Beautiful, cultivated, 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 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.
language: English
title: The Princess of Siberia : The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles
titlecomplete: The Princess of Siberia : The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles
genres: Biography, History, Russia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Russian History
ratings_count: 97
places: Siberia
publisher: Quartet Books