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exonerated.
The Tsar was ‘most affable to us’ Griboyedov told Varvara Miklashevich;
‘he was cleverwise and kindand spoke with an adroitness and skill
only equalled in my experience by Yermolov’.
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Still reeling from his narrow escapeGriboyedov could only express
gratitude to the imperial autocrat whose towering presence and terrifying
‘pewter eyes’
2had reduced so many of the Decembrists to grovelling
remorse. The Tsar had insisted on interrogating the major conspirators
himself. Far more punitive and vengeful than the commissionhe was
determined to make an example of the plottersignoring the advice of
those who pleaded for a more lenient approach. The conspiracyafter
allhad failed; its tentacles had reached into almost all the country’s
leading families. It might have been politic as well as generous for the
emperor to propitiate them by beginning his reign in a spirit of magna-
nimity. It was not in his character to do so.
There was no death penalty as such in Russiathough the punish-
ment of flogging in the army came to the same. But the guilt of the
leading five conspirators was considered so great that they were
sentenced to be hangeddrawn and quartered. In the spirit of modern
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