Interesting facts about Ryleev Is a great opportunity to learn more about the Decembrists. He was one of the 5 Decembrists who were sentenced to death by hanging. Throughout his life, he strove to improve the state of affairs in Russia through revolution.
We bring to your attention the most interesting facts about Kondraty Ryleev.
- Kondraty Ryleev - Russian poet, public figure and one of the leaders of the Decembrist uprising in 1825.
- When Kondraty was still young, his father lost all his fortune at cards, including 2 estates.
- An interesting fact is that in his youth Ryleev took part in the military campaigns of the Russian army.
- Since Kondraty Ryleev was fond of reading from childhood, he developed myopia.
- For some time the Decembrist was a member of the Petersburg Criminal Chamber.
- For 3 years Ryleev, together with the writer Bestuzhev, published the almanac "Polar Star".
- Do you know that the revolutionary corresponded with Pushkin and Griboyedov?
- When Ryleev learned about the death of Mikhail Kutuzov (see interesting facts about Kutuzov), he wrote a laudatory ode in his honor.
- Once the poet acted as a second in a duel between his comrade and his opponent. As a result, both men died of fatal injuries.
- It is curious that Ryleev was a member of the Flaming Star Masonic lodge.
- After the failed uprising of the Decembrists, Kondraty Ryleev took all the blame, trying to soften the sentence of his comrades.
- On the eve of his death, Ryleev composed a verse, which he scrawled on a tin plate.
- An interesting fact is that Alexander Pushkin considered the work of the Decembrist to be rather mediocre.
- Throughout his life, Ryleev published only 2 of his poetry collections.
- The rope on which Kondraty Ryleyev was to be hanged has broken. Under such circumstances, the convicts are usually released, but in this case the revolutionary was hanged again.
- Ryleev was considered the most pro-American of all the Decembrists (see interesting facts about the Decembrists). He was convinced that "there are no good governments in the world except America."
- After Ryleev's execution, all of his books were destroyed.
- In Russia and Ukraine, there are about 20 streets named after Kondraty Ryleev.
- The exact burial place of the Decembrist is still unknown.
- Ryleev's family was interrupted, since he had only one child, who died in childhood.