The Decembrist Pavel Pestel
Subtitle: Russia's First Republican
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333984550
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Historical - General; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); 1793-1826; Biography; December Uprising, 1825; Decembrists; Pestel, Pavel Ivanovich,; Pestel§, Pavel Ivanovich,
First sentence: The Russian Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century covered a vast territory extending from the Vistula and eastern Poland, taking in the whole of north-east Asia, across to the Bering Straits and beyond to Alaska.