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The Romanovs and the Decembrist Wives: Love and Exile
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the story of the Decembrist wives—the noblewomen who followed their husbands into Siberian exile after the failed 1825 uprising. We focus on Princess Maria Volkonskaya, who defied her father's wishes and Emperor Nicholas I's threats to join her husband Sergei at a salt mine near Lake Baikal. We discuss the Decembrists' secret societies, the bloody suppression on Senate Square, the harsh katorga labour camps, and how the wives' presence transformed exile life. We also look at the cultural legacy: how Nekrasov's poem 'Russian…
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