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Events on Tuesday 25 July 1826 1
1826Execution of the Decembrist leadersFive conspirators hanged in Saint PetersburgPyotr Kakhovsky, Kondraty Ryleyev, Pavel Pestel, Sergei Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin were executed for leading the December 1825 uprising against Tsar Nicholas I. Dozens of other Decembrists were exiled to Siberia.