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The Grand Duke Sergei Grigorievich Volkonsky, who had been exiled to Irkutsk in Siberia as a Decembrist. Irkutsk. Alfred Davignon
1845, daguerreotype. Russia. Portrait.
Prince Sergei Grigorievich Volkonsky (Серге́й Григорьевич Волко́нский; 19 December 1788 – 10 December 1865) was a Russian Empire Major General and Decembrist from the aristocratic Volkonsky family.
Prince Sergey was a grandson of Field Marshal Nicholas Repnin, a leading statesman of Catherine the Great's reign. The three brothers Sergey, Nikita Volkonsky and Nikolay Repnin, distinguished themselves during the Napoleonic Wars.
Volkonsky was promoted Major General after the Battle of Großbeeren and Battle of Dennewitz. He was wounded in the Battle of Eylau. He was the only general still in active service who took part in the Decembrist conspiracy of 1825, an attempt to achieve liberal reform by preventing the accession of Tsar Nicholas I. Following the failure of the revolt, he was found guilty and sentenced to beheading, which was eventually commuted to life in prison.
Prince Volkonsky went to toil in the mines near Irkutsk and spent 30 years as a political exile in Siberia.
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Der Großfürst Sergej Grigor'evic Volkonskij, der als Dekabrist nach Irkutsk in Sibirien verbannt worden war. Irkutsk. Alfred Davignon
1845, Daguerreotypie.
Russland.
Porträt.
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