Russia's First Revolutionaries: The Decembrists ALL PARTS

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Some points I want to mention as someone who studied Russian history:
1) the Decembrists inspired not only revolutionaries, but also writers and poets like Pushkin. Many important literature figures knew the Decembrists personally and saw their demise as a personal tragedy. Pierre Bezuknov from War and Peace has many traits of the Decembrists in his character and it was done on purpose.
2) Since the Decembrists were noblemen, they looked at the Emperor and high-ranked officials who questioned them as their comrades and were pretty naive and too honest with them answering all their questions because it was a noble thing to do and willingly giving out information later used against them.
3) The Decembrists were beloved by the local population in Siberia and they influenced the cultural development of the region. The mansions the Decembrists owned were turned into museums.
4) Some Decembrists refused to return back to St. Petersburg even when they were allowed to and they stayed in Siberia forever as they loved the place and the people and had nothing to return to back in St. Petersburg.
5) "The Decembrist's wife" is a Russian saying meaning "a brave and selfless woman who is ready to share any fate with her partner", their wives were regarded with respect and idealized.
6) The Union of Salvation (the movie) received very mixed reviews, but the majority of the vocal viewers and film critics saw it as an attempt to downplay the Decembrist's role and show their actions as senseless and the Decembrists themselves as stupid kids who rebelled out of their youthful maximalism while the "kind" Emperor was just doing his duty. The movie was released at the time of pro-liberal protests in Russia which were attended mostly by 20-30 somethings and Navalny was getting more popular among people, so showing some of the most famous Russian liberal revolutionaries in such a light at the time like that has raised many eyebrows.

I just wanted to watch a few minutes and ended up watching the whole documentary despite having no particular interest in the Decembrist Revolution.
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"What a miserable country, they can't even hang us properly." Ouch, he definitely got one last FU in. And Sir Edward Disbrowe was right on the money in his letter to the British Foreign Secretary.

The friend of Ryleyev quoted at 15:30 - Adam Mickiewicz is considered one of the greatest Polish poets ever and a very influential figure in shaping the modern Polish identity. Born in what is now Belarus, he considered himself both Polish and Lithuanian (or more like he considered being "Lithuanian" a special kind of being Polish). He studied in the Lithuanian capital - Vilnius (Wilno, as he would call it, Vilna, as it is marked on the map in the video). He found himself in Petersburg due to internal exile deeper into the Empire; a punishment for a "horrific crime" of basically belonging to a student book club.

The production value on this is amazing. A particular hats off to the narration. I don't know what it is, but the way he tells this story is absolutely gripping. The part about the botched hangings almost brought a genuine tear to my eye.

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You guys should go over the wars of Austrian and Spanish succession! Can you go over more events of early modern history?

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I'd love to see one on Peter the Great and special on the Suvorov campaign in Italy

Your videos on Russian history are the best I have ever seen. We are very blessed to have such exceptional quality content on this and so many other amazing events.

This was an absolutely wonderful series.

Amazing series. I swear if someone taught me history like that (or any subject for that matter) I'd not be able to get enough of school/university.

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I love the unintentional pun at the 4:00ff. mark: "The ineffectiveness and chaos of his father's rule had a-PAUL-ed him"! But my favorite line comes at the 10:38ff. mark: "You don't get things done by talking softly in French."

Thanks for the well-made documentary. What an epic failure - the decemberists! To plan everything and then on the actual planned day half the people get scared and back out and don't show up. Trubetskoy turned out to be the biggest coward of them all. 🤣

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Great video. I watched it on Fourth of July weekend, which was quite fitting, given how much the Decembrists were inspired by the American Revolution. This line from Ryleyev warmed my heart: "There are no good governments in the world, except in America."

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Arguably the best rendition of history I’ve ever watched.

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It's interesting how quickly we went from the peak era of dramatic television to whatever you call the era we're in now.

Seems to me one of the problems was exactly the limitation to the military, which then was pulled in 2 directions of loyalty. It should have also spread support among the regular population to have had any change of succes.

Excellent video. Big thanks for making it available to us all!

Please 🥺 we want more I've searched through the channel again for more of these. But I've already watched them countless times. Please educate us more with these documentaries
Anxiously waiting for the next one

It's amazing to hear some them were inspired by the American Founding Fathers!

Thank you for a terrific history lesson.

This is such a well done documentary. Great content!

Epic History TV please do a series for the legendary commander Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg!That would be amazing the quality of your videos are superb.

Imagine how Russia could be today had these men succeeded.

Fantastic presentation, outstanding quality and good context.

Love these longer videos. keep up the good work

Outstanding documentary like always! I absolutely love how you make these, and the dedication! Please keep them coming!

This is just absolute perfection. Y'all are the best then there's all the rest..and so on.
Thank you.
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The artwork done for this episode is stunning

great video as per usual, thank you Epic History

Thank you for making this. I learned a great deal.

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What an absolutely incredible video! The detail you put into your videos is simply exquisite. I'm not a fan of the Decembrists liberal ideals but the courage the soldiers had to stand against what they thought was wrong is inspiring nevertheless.

Excellent documentary, which filled a big gap in my knowledge. Hopefully there will shortly be a new generation of Decembrists.

Great Artwork. Hope you make an art piece of the WW2 (detailed one please).

It would be interesting if you can cover Spanish Civil Wars like Carlist Wars...It seems a best fit for this wonderful channel...Cheers and best Epic History TV

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If the Decemberists would've waited until May I think the nicer weather would've encouraged more people to support their cause.

I'd love a video from Epic History TV about the Caucasus War

Man these guys have to be the sorriest revolutionaries I’ve ever seen. The fact that the Bolsheviks managed to capture St.Petersburg a hundred years later with only a few hundred men shows that the 5000 trained soldiers the Decembrists had would have been more than enough to do the trick. But they gave up before they even tried!

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Extremely well done retelling.

Life here in Russia is never boring, it's an endless chain of wars, revolutions, ect

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Beautifully made!

Before the December uprising, there were several peasant uprisings on the Senate Square: for two hundred years. The largest are the revolts of Bulavin, Razin, Pugachev. When the rebels took the cities.

Alternative history is fascinating to me, imagine the world if the Decembrist’s won?

It's baffling just how weak those in charge of the revolution were, particularly in the North

I dont remember the name of the movie, but it was about the decembrists. Watching the scene where the soldiers formation is gettimg shredded by grapeshot was horrifying.

My only complaint is that this wasn't uploaded on December 14. That would have been so much cooler!

Well Time for a rewatch! Thanks for your work EHTV!

So unexpected and facsinating knowing that Russia had these young aristrocats who looked up to the US and wanted change and freedom not just for themselves and other like them, but also for everyone!

Masterpiece, as usual

😂 i thought this was Part two of Napoleon's Italian campaign, it's okay thank you so much Epic history tv 🥰🥰🥰

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Loved this! So interesting!

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you posted this video one day too late my man, last sunday i watched it with my entire family in our tv and i had to get up to go the second video. It was really enjoyable nevertheless!

Wow. Imagine if Russia became a US-Style federal republic. Idk if my little heart could handle it

Exelent video, the only thing that could be added would be a more in depth exploration of ideology of both sides

While I watching this documentary, I had an urge of knowing the release date of the video…I started laughing, I guess everyone is doing their part, instigating a revolution in Russia

Serfdom was abolished in France in 1779 by Louis XVI, a decade before the revolution :)

Crazy how this echos through time, couldn’t be more truer today in Russia.

Please do one on the 1905 revolution.

Despite their failure, these where great men.

The Russian tsars were themselves hostages of the political system created under Alexei Mikhailovich. In such a vast country, you cannot free tens of millions of people without consequences, which can be destructive for the whole country, not only for the dynasty. Although serfdom did not concern the whole of Russia, but for the most part its central region. This was confirmed by Stolypin's fleeting reform, which freed millions of peasants, but they had nowhere to go because there was not enough work for everyone. But it was not fully completed due to the assassination of Stolypin, World War 1 and the revolution. Although many do not understand that the serfs and landlords in Russia were often close to each other and this in the vast majority of cases was not a mockery as sadistic noblewoman Morozova. On the contrary, most of the tragic cases described by Russian classics were not serfs and more often happened in the city, not in the countryside. Where poor people cut off from the earth were often alone and were not needed by anyone, the same as in the British classics where the poor, mostly workers, eked out a miserable existence. But in the villages people lived in better conditions and in most cases were not left to the mercy of fate, moreover, they were often met halfway in difficult situations, they were given money and livestock as a loan. Many did not want to leave the landowners. At that time, the landowners in the village were mostly Orthodox Christians and had to take care of their people. And here one can argue who lived worse than the London, St. Petersburg worker or serf in the Bryansk province. And also who was more cruel London or St. Petersburg manufacturer or Orthodox Chritian Russian landowner. Of course, a London or St. Petersburg worker sounds more progressive than a serf, but all the same, in Russia there should be a gradual evolution of the political system, and not a revolution. Liberals in Russia always have a disastrous contrast for them in the many beautiful small and large towns in Europe compared to the large dull (as it seems to them) plains with a small number of cities in the expanses of patriarchal Russia. They do not understand the beauty of Russia and its integrity and self - identity . They always want to make Europe out of Russia, but Russia is neither Europe nor Asia, and never will be. Russia is a separate project and a separate civilization, where not only Russians but also hundreds of other peoples live, the main goal of which, having huge resources, to build their own more just society than now, their civilization, not to quarrel with each other, but to complement each other without any revolutions, but only due to evolutions in all spheres. Also interesting is the fact that the British, both at that time and after 100 years and now, have always longed for a revolution in Russia, but not in Britain. But this will not happen again because the Russians already have 2 powerful vaccines from the overthrow of the 1917 and 1991 regime. This will not happen again no matter how much the West would like it.

Was literally listening to Revolutions right now, great timing

25:24 Anyone else notice that this guy shoots everyone EXCEPT the Emperor? The guy he was SUPPOSED to shoot in the first place!?

Just watched "Union of Salvation" (Soyuz Spaseniya) thanks to this video. Fantastic movie.

That's the most Russian response to a botched executed ever @ 46:25.

How different history might've been had the Decemberists succeeded: e.g., if Tsar Nicholas I had never ruled, there might've been NO CRIMEAN WAR (or if such a war did occur, perhaps a modernized Russia would've WON that war). Above all, perhaps with a modern, limited (constitutional) monarchy--or maybe even an American-style republic--arising in 1825 or 1826 in Russia, maybe COMMUNISM NEVER would've prevailed in Russia; it's incalculable how much that would've changed the 20th century!

How is this not priority in history lessons after modern world events?

This was absolutely riveting

Great piece, thank you.

Recently watched the film Nicholas and Alexandra, on the last years of their reign. He was just unwilling to be anything other than an autocrat!

I always enjoy revolutions that just make things worse.

11:15 this to me seems it would bring lots of support to the Decembrists.

When the executioner attempted to hang the five men, three of them, Muravyov-Apostol, Kakhovsky, and Ryleyev, dropped through the trapdoor only to have the rope around their necks break. Ryleyev supposedly told the crowd watching the execution that Russia was an "unhappy country, where they don't even know how to hang you." The Tsar decided to prove otherwise, and simply ordered more rope, and the execution was carried out.

I wish they were teaching history that way back in school

Editor really loves that flame transition.

16:29 Without a superior ideal, liberty breeds anarchy

Could you please make a video on the Russian wild west, the Russian Far east

قناة رائعة تستحق الف الف تحية واعجاب كبير واحترام اكبر. قناتك الموقرة مليئة بالمعلومات الدقيقة والمفيدة للغاية. جهدك رائع ورائع. أتمنى لك النجاح الدائم. وأنا أكتب لك بمنتهى الصراحة والاحترام ، وأنا واثق تمامًا من أنك مهتم بتقديم المنفعة للجميع دون استثناء. فائق الاحترام والتقدير والاعتزاز لكم أيها السادة

This is what happens when you rush things and don't plan things out

Russian history is truly enigma