“Love… Fatherland and Freedom!”

This article is devoted to the 190 anniversary of the Decembrist revolt. It provides information about one of the leaders of the Southern society – Vasily Lvovich Davydov. A poet, a brave officer of the Russian army, a participant of the Patriotic war of 1812, awarded by numerous awards for courage, he became an active republican who was jealously defending the ideas of freedom, equality and brotherhood. Davydov spent 13 years on penal service in Siberia, and from 1839 to 1855 he had been living with his family on the settlement in Krasnoyarsk, where he passed away. His love to Aleksandra Ivanovna Potapova – the Decembrist’ wife, became the best part of his destiny. Their unique marriage became the source of admiration for the contemporaries and still continues to inspire our contemporaries by the manifestation of female self-sacrifice, fidelity and true love.

• Prygun ElenaV.

• Гуманитарные науки
• Социальные (общественные) науки