N. A. Arzumanov. And high aspiration of the thoughts... (№ 386093)

Before the Decembrists, who had returned from the liberation of Foreign campaigns, feudal Russia appeared in all its ugliness. The plight of serfs, war-ravaged and exposed to excessive exploitation of the landlords, drill, and cane discipline in the army, the decline of industry and Commerce, the absolute power of officials and injustice of the people - all this, according to P. I. Pestel merged into the overall picture of the "people's blagodenstviya"