Biography N Muravyov

Together with his brother Alexander, he received an excellent home education, he knew six languages ​​perfectly, including Russian, which was a rarity among the educated nobility of that time. At the age of seventeen he graduated from Moscow University. At the beginning of the war of the year, he ran away from home to the army, went through the entire military company of years, participated in hostilities against Napoleon I.

In June, he arrived in Paris in the sweat of officers of the General Staff. Returning to Russia, he took up the study of political economy, economics, law, history.

He was not satisfied with the socio-political position of Russia and pondered the ways of transformation, was a supporter of the establishment of a republican rule through a military uprising. In the year, Nikita took an active part in the creation of the Union of Salvation, was the author of the charter of this union. In the year, Muravyov - among the founders of the Union of Welfare, participated in the creation of the Green Book - the Charter of this Union.

At the beginning of the year, he resigned. After the formal dissolution of the Union of Welfare, Muravyov initiates the creation of a new organization - northern society, where its influence in years was extremely large. He was the author of the project of the Constitution of the new society, where he intended to preserve the monarchy, but left the emperor a limited power similar to the presidential in the United States, and proposed the division of Russia into independent areas united by a common union.

There was no Muravyov on Senate Square and in general in St. Petersburg at the time of the Decembrist uprising - together with his wife they were at that time in the family estate, but he was arrested by denunciation as one of the leaders of a secret society. Nikita Muravyov was convicted of the first category, and sentenced to hard labor for a period of 20 years. Later, in August, the term of hard labor was reduced to 15 years.

He was sent to Siberia in December, followed by his wife, Alexander Grigoryevna, who paved the way to other decabrist wives, followed him in February. Muravyov was serving hard labor in the Nerchinsk mines, he was transferred to a settlement in the Irkutsk province in the year. He was engaged in agriculture, lectured, wrote socio-political works and memoirs that he destroyed in the year after the arrest of Mikhail Lunin.

Nikita Mikhailovich Muravyov died on April 28 on May 10 in the Slobod of Urikovskaya now - the village of Urik Irkutsk region. Persons of the day of March 17: - Henry Taylor British swimmer, three -time Olympic champion.