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Maria Volkonskaya

Maria Volkonskaya
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It has been claimed that Nicholas sprang a trip on the Decembrist wives, cynically keeping them in ignorance of his intention to prevent them from ever making the return journey to European Russia until they had already reached Irkutsa. In fact, the tsar had made such constraints clear to all concerned in his reply to Volkonskaya’s petition on 21 December: “I feel obliged once again to repeat here my warning, which I have already given you about what awaits you, should you travel beyond Irkutak. You should of course pursue whatever course of action seems to you the most appropriate in your current situation.” When Maria later claimed to her parents that she did not understand the meaning of these words, she was most probably seeking to assuage their anger and distress. At the very least she had willfully chosen to misunderstand the warning. Nicholas did not want the women to leave for Suberia and had no reason to conceal from them that they would not be allowed to return. Byt erecting such obstacles in the path of the young wives did not dissuade them. Far from backing down, Volkonskaya wrote to her father: “My son is happy but my husband is unhappy – my place is with my husband. {Such as} my sense of duty” ~ Page 75
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Joyful moments like the Annekkovs’ wedding could quickly give way to tragedy, though., “In Chita I received news of the death of my poor Nikolai, my first child, whom I had left behind in St. Petersburg, Maria Volknonsky noted grimly in her memories. The two-year-old died on 17 January 1828, but Maria, exiled across time as well as distance, learned the terrible news only in March. Nikolai has burned in the Alexander Nevesky monastery in St. Petersburg. His grave bore an epithet penned by Pushkin

In radiance, in joyful response,
At the throne of the Eternal Creator,
With a smile he look upon earthly exile
Blesses his mother and prays for his father. ~ Page 109

Maria wrote to her father of how she had “withdrawn from everyone and could not, as before, see my friends. I have such moments of despair when I do not know what will become of me.” By the first anniversary of her son’s death, Maria had yet to recover her spirits: “With each day, I feel the loss of my son more and more strongly,” she confided in a letter to her sister. She later wrote from Chita that, “In all the world that surrounds me, there is only one place close to my heart – the patch of gross covering my child’s grave.” ` Page 109

Maria Volkonskaya died in 1863 and Sergei two years later. In the final months of his life, Sergei sat down to write his memoirs. He was unapologetic about his part in the rebellion and everything that had flowed from it: “The path I chose took me to the Supreme Court, to
Siberia, to penal labour and into a thirty-year-long exile from my homeland, and yet, I do not renounce a single one of my words.” ` Page 130

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. . . . There was a scattering of good roads in Russia, notably the St Petersburg-Moscow highway, completed in 1816. One of its early travellers, Princess Maria Volkonsky – the wife of Sergei Volkonsky, one of the instigators of the attempted coup against the tsar of December 1825 – took five days to cover the 450 miles between the two cities when she journeyed east to join her husband in exile. This suggests it was certainly among the better roads of the age in Europe. . . . Pag 2

TO THE EDGE of the WORLD
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Maria rejoiced at her husband’s contentment – but she herself found it difficult to slip back into the pattern of life of her younger days. Years before, she had thrown the whole of herself into the role of a decembrist’s wife; each day, she faced obstacles which she conquered through her indomitable will and endurance, while carrying the full burnt of the family’s responsibility on her shoulders. . .. .She knew that Siberis had been a personal triumph for her, and occasionally she even felt a tinge of nostalgia when something reminded her of that countryside – the primitive beauty of the banks of the Angara, Lake Baikal glistering among the towering peaks, the flower meadows of Chita. “Nature here still has the dew of creation upon it,” . . . . Page 316

The Princess of SIBERIA (Maria Volkonskaya)
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