This is the 19th Century Page!
Click through below to find rebellions, revolutions, riots, and more in 19th century Tsarist Russia. I hope you enjoy and learn something new!
Decembrist Revolt
- Date: (N.S.) December 26th, 1825
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Groups Uprising: Decembrists (Russian officers and soldiers who'd been exposed to and agreed with Western ideas of liberalism)
- Number of People: About 3,000
- Leaders: Army officers
- Reason(s): Wanted a constituion and constitutional monarchy (with the next succession to the throne), wanted the abolishment of serfdom
- Result: Easily crushed by the new Tsar Nicholas I and survivors exiled to Siberia, Nicholas I turns away from modernization, the Decembrists became inspiration for future revolutionaries in Russia
November Uprising (Polish-Russian War of 1830-1831)
- Date: November 29th, 1830 – October 21st, 1831
- Location: Poland, Right-bank Ukraine, Lithuania
- Groups Uprising: Young Polish officers, the peoples of Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and Right-bank Ukraine
- Number of People: 150,000
- Leaders: Józef Chłopicki, M.G. Radziwiłł, J.Z. Skrzynecki, Ignacy Prądzyński, K. Małachowski, Maciej Rybiński, J.N. Umiński
- Reason(s): Russian authorities disregarded the Polish constitution and the resolutions from the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), they imposed censorship, persecutions by Russian secret police began, Grand Duke Constatine abolished social & patriotic organizations, replaced Poles in important positions with Russians, and more
- Result: Russia under Tsar Nicholas I suppressed the uprising, Poland lost its autonomy and was merged with the Russian Empire
January Uprising
- Date: January 22nd, 1863 – June 18th, 1864
- Location: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia
- Groups Uprising: Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Russian Rebels, Garibaldi Legion (Italian volunteers), French, British, and Hungarian volunteers
- Number of People: ~200,000
- Leaders: Stefan Bobrowski, Romuald Traugutt, Marian Langiewicz, Ludwik Mierosławski
- Reason(s): Differed from age and social class (Polish nobility/urban bourgeois missed their previous semi-autonomous status, young Poles were encouraged by the successful Second Italian War of Independece, etc), the killing of protestors and the imposation of Martial Law on Warsaw, the conscription of young activists into 20-year Russian military service triggered the uprising
- Result: Brutal suppression of rebellion (including 100+ executions and mass exiling to Siberia), harsh measures placed against the Poles and systematic Russification
Andijan Uprising of 1898
- Date: (N.S.) May 29th, 1989
- Location: Andijan (as well as Margilan and Ush), Uzbekistan (at the time, Russia)
- Groups Uprising: (Mostly) Kyrgyz Rebels
- Number of People: ~1,500
- Leaders: Muhammad Ali Madali (Dukchi Ishan)
- Reason(s): Discontent over the conquest of Central Asia by the Russians and subsequent religious "tampering" (such as forbidding pilgrimages to Mecca)
- Result: Quickly suppressed (the uprising only lasted about 15 minutes) with some of the participants executed and more (but not all those arrested) exiled, revealed mass opposition to Tsarist rule in Central Asia (at least upon looking back)