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In the Manifesto of the Senate declared: the Destruction of the former Board; Free embossed, and therefore the destruction of the censorship; Free exercise of worship for all faiths; the Destruction of property rights applying to people; Equality of all classes before the law; the Publicity of trials.

The experience of all peoples and of all times has proved that autocratic government is still fatal to rulers and to society. We cannot allow the basis of the government - the tyranny of one man - it is impossible to agree that all rights were on one side and all duties on the other. Putting yourself above the laws, the rulers have forgotten that they are in this case outside the law, outside of mankind! - It is impossible to refer to the laws when it is about others and not to recognize their existence, when it comes to them.

The Supreme power is divided into legislative and Supreme Executive. The first is entrusted to the National Assembly. People's Council consists of representatives chosen by the people for 5 years. Every year the fifth part of the descends and is replaced by new elections. The same can be selected.

The state consists of the people and the government. The whole Russian people is one class - civil; all the current bars are destroyed and merged into one class - civil.

The conspirators can't be free in their actions, taking the sacred, necessary, however, and terrible duties, they, more than anyone, should themselves be subordinate to Society of personal freedom and to observe with accuracy rules and regulations that serve to achieve the goal, and the preservation of the Union and to the safety of members thereof.

In the struggle against the giant power enough military one of courage, needs more civil courage; we ought in advance to accustom ourselves to this thought: I will die if I begin to act; let the other finish.

A Constitution embodying a Republican form of government for Russia and endorsed by many famous journalists of the English, French and German. Was adopted unanimously by members of the southern society.

The arrests of the Decembrists began on the night of 15 December 1825, shortly after, by order of Nicholas I, rebellious troops on the Senate square were shot with buckshot. The accused was taken to the Winter Palace, which actually turned into a police station. The king was actually the chief investigator and jailer, Prosecutor, and executioner. He personally interviewed many of the Decembrists, determined the regime of their stay in the fortress.

Members of the southern (and Northern) society feared that in case of active participation of the people in the revolution they won't be able to stop the raging element of the revolution that it will perelistnut a framework by which they sought to protect her. The Decembrists wanted to carry out a revolution for the people but without the people.

The age of military glory ended with Napoleon. Now is the time for liberation of the peoples from their oppressive bondage, and is Russian, which marked such brilliant feats in the war truly Patriotic - Russian, istorie Europe from the yoke of Napoleon, overthrown by his own yoke?

Criticism of the feudal system and the reactionary policy of tsarism brought the front part of the nobility on the path of political, and then armed struggle against the autocracy. The main purpose of a secret society at all stages of its ten-year history was the elimination of the autocracy and serfdom. The Decembrists attached great importance to the development of the constitutional project, which identified the main foundations of the future state structure of Russia.

Kriitika the feudal system and the reactionary policy of tsarism brought the front part of the nobility on the path of political, and then armed struggle against the autocracy. The main purpose of a secret society at all stages of its ten-year history was the elimination of the autocracy and serfdom. The Decembrists attached great importance to the development of the constitutional project, which identified the main foundations of the future state structure of Russia.

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"

Patriotic war of 1812 aroused the consciousness of the advanced officer youth and played a huge role in shaping the revolutionary world Outlook of the future Decembrists. They were ardent patriots barely came the "storm of the twelfth year", as many of them joined the army, became participants of the decisive battles of the war of 1812 and the liberation campaign of 1813, passed the way from Borodino to Paris.