Education
Moscow university boarding school.
Moscow university boarding school.
A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay co-founded several reformist societies, notably the Northern Society of the Decembrists. Being abroad during the fateful Rebellion of 1825, he chose never to return to his homeland, where he was tried in absentia and sentenced to Siberian katorga for life. This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.