Aleksandr Viktorovich Poggio ( April 15 (27), 1798 , Nikolaev - June 6 (18), 1873 , Voronki, Chernihiv province ) - Decembrist , the younger brother of Joseph Poggio .
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| Date of Birth | April 15 (27), 1798 |
| Place of Birth | Russian Empire , Nikolaev (Nikolaev region) |
| Date of death | June 6 (18), 1873 (aged 75) |
| Place of death | with. Voronki, Starodubsky district , Chernihiv province , Russia, now Bobrovitsky district , Chernihiv region |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | , |
Biography
Born in a family of Italian - Catholic Vittorio Amadeo Poggio , Russian citizen. He studied at the Odessa School. He entered the service in 1814 , served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment . In 1823 he became a member of the Southern Society , and then the Northern Society , maintained contact between them and carried out important conspiracy assignments. The closest associate of P.I. Pestel , spoke out for the establishment of the republic, for the murder of the royal family and for accelerating the struggle against the autocracy. In March 1825 he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In December 1825, he encouraged S.G. Volkonsky and other Decembrists to raise an uprising in Tulchin . Arrested after the uprising in December 1825 and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor.
Since 1839, on a settlement in Siberia. In Siberia, he married Larisa Andreevna Smirnova, a classy lady of the Irkutsk Institute ( 1851 ). Released under the amnesty of 1856 .
After returning from Siberia in 1859, Poggio lived in the Pskov and Moscow provinces, traveled to Switzerland and Florence . Since 1863, he lived abroad for several years, where he became close friends with A.I. Herzen . He died in 1873, was buried in the estate of the Decembrist Sergei Volkonsky .
A. V. Poggio left valuable historical memoirs (Notes of the Decembrist, Moscow 1930).
The streets in Odessa and Nikolaev (Ukraine) are named after the Poggio brothers.
Links
- Materials of the investigation of A.V. Poggio . Decembrist revolt. Documents. T.XI, S.31-88.
- Alexander Poggio at the Decembrists Museum website
- N.P. Mathanova. “Decembrist A.V. Poggio in the 50-60s. XIX century. "
- N. Kirsanov. Decembrists in the Omsk Irtysh. New York, 2011.