Fedor Fedorovich Vadkovsky: biography. White church

Fedor Fedorovich Vadkovsky (May 1 (13) ( 18000513 ) year, s. Pyatnitskoye, Oryol province - January 8 (20), p. Oyok, Irkutsk province) - poet, musician, ensign of the Nezhinsky Horse-Jager Regiment (1825); Decembrist. Convicted of 1st category.

Biography

The middle son of the senator and chamberlain of the court, Fyodor Fedorovich Vadkovsky (-) and Ekaterina Ivanovna Vadkovskaya, née Countess Chernysheva. Born in the village. Pyatnitsky (Izvaly) near Yelets, Oryol province. The younger brother of Ivan Fedorovich Vadkovsky (-) and the older brother of Alexander Fedorovich Vadkovsky (1802-1845), also convicted in the Decembrist case. He received his primary education at the Moscow University boarding school and at the Main German School of St. Peter (1815-1818). From January 25, 1818, lieutenant ensign of the Life Guards. Semenovsky regiment. Transferred to the Cavalry Regiment on April 20, 1820 as a cadet, on August 27, 1820 as an estandard cadet, and as a cornet on January 1, 1822. On June 19, 1824, he was transferred to the Nizhyn Cavalry Regiment as an ensign for satirical poetry.

Decembrist society

He was sent to Siberia on November 17, 1827, arrived in the Chita prison on January 5, 1828, and at the Petrovsky Plant in September 1830. One of the organizers of the Small Artel. At the Petrovsky Plant he gave a course of lectures on astronomy. On November 8, 1832, the term was reduced to 15, and on December 14, 1835 to 13 years.

In his poem “Desire,” written after 1836, Vadkovsky proclaimed the Decembrist program: 1. Destruction of autocracy. 2. Liberation of the peasants. 3. Transformations in the troops. 4. Equality before the law. 5. Abolition of corporal punishment. 6. Publicity of legal proceedings. 7. Freedom of printing. 8. Recognition of people's power. 9. Chamber of Representatives. 10. Public army. 11. Initial training. 12. Destruction of estates.

Appointed to settle in the village. Manzurka, Irkutsk province. July 10, 1839. However, due to health reasons, he was released to Turkinsky Mineral Waters. From September 1839 in Irkutsk, from September 5, 1840 in a settlement in the village of Oyok. He was engaged in the trade of bread and clay. He left notes published in the collection “Memoirs and Stories of Secret Society Figures of the 1820s” (-). Author of the essay “White Church” (the history of the uprising of the Chernigov regiment according to the stories of its participants). Died January 8, 1844. His executors were E.I. Trubetskaya and A.N. Sutgof. The grave of F.F. Vadkovsky has not survived.

Documentation

• . Decembrist revolt. Documentation. T.XI, pp.189-236.

Write a review of the article "Vadkovsky, Fedor Fedorovich"

Links

(link unavailable since 06/15/2013 (2189 days))

Literature

• Dorofeev V. Yelets Decembrists. // newspaper "Red Banner". - December 2, 1982.
• Dorofeev V. Rebellious family. // newspaper “Orlovskaya Pravda”. - December 14, 1982.
• Dorofeev V. He intended to commit regicide. // weekly magazine “Literary Russia”. - September 5, 1986.
• Dorofeev Vladlen. Rebellious family. // Cure for loneliness. - M., 2005. - ISBN 5-7949-0136-5.

An excerpt characterizing Vadkovsky, Fedor Fedorovich

Everyone in the house felt for whom Prince Andrei was traveling, and he, without hiding, tried to be with Natasha all day. Not only in Natasha’s frightened, but happy and enthusiastic soul, but in the whole house one could feel the fear of something important that was about to happen. The Countess looked at Prince Andrei with sad and seriously stern eyes when he spoke to Natasha, and timidly and feignedly began some insignificant conversation as soon as he looked back at her. Sonya was afraid to leave Natasha and was afraid to be a hindrance when she was with them. Natasha turned pale with fear of anticipation when she remained alone with him for minutes. Prince Andrei amazed her with his timidity. She felt that he needed to tell her something, but that he could not bring himself to do so.
When Prince Andrey left in the evening, the Countess came up to Natasha and said in a whisper:
- Well?
“Mom, for God’s sake don’t ask me anything now.” “You can’t say that,” Natasha said.
But despite this, that evening Natasha, sometimes excited, sometimes frightened, with fixed eyes, lay for a long time in her mother’s bed. Either she told her how he praised her, then how he said that he would go abroad, then how he asked where they would live this summer, then how he asked her about Boris.
- But this, this... has never happened to me! - she said. “Only I’m scared in front of him, I’m always scared in front of him, what does that mean?” That means it's real, right? Mom, are you sleeping?
“No, my soul, I’m scared myself,” answered the mother. - Go.
- I won’t sleep anyway. What nonsense is it to sleep? Mom, mom, this has never happened to me! - she said with surprise and fear at the feeling that she recognized in herself. – And could we think!...
It seemed to Natasha that even when she first saw Prince Andrey in Otradnoye, she fell in love with him. She seemed to be frightened by this strange, unexpected happiness, that the one whom she had chosen back then (she was firmly convinced of this), that the same one had now met her again, and, it seemed, was not indifferent to her. “And he had to come to St. Petersburg on purpose now that we are here. And we had to meet at this ball. It's all fate. It is clear that this is fate, that all this was leading to this. Even then, as soon as I saw him, I felt something special.”
- What else did he tell you? What verses are these? Read... - the mother said thoughtfully, asking about the poems that Prince Andrei wrote in Natasha’s album.
“Mom, isn’t it a shame that he’s a widower?”
- That's enough, Natasha. Pray to God. Les Marieiages se font dans les cieux. [Marriages are made in heaven.]
- Darling, mother, how I love you, how good it makes me feel! – Natasha shouted, crying tears of happiness and excitement and hugging her mother.
At the same time, Prince Andrei was sitting with Pierre and telling him about his love for Natasha and his firm intention to marry her.

On this day, Countess Elena Vasilyevna had a reception, there was a French envoy, there was a prince, who had recently become a frequent visitor to the countess’s house, and many brilliant ladies and men. Pierre was downstairs, walked through the halls, and amazed all the guests with his concentrated, absent-minded and gloomy appearance.
Since the time of the ball, Pierre had felt the approaching attacks of hypochondria and with desperate effort tried to fight against them. From the time the prince became close to his wife, Pierre was unexpectedly granted a chamberlain, and from that time on he began to feel heaviness and shame in large society, and more often the old gloomy thoughts about the futility of everything human began to come to him. At the same time, the feeling he noticed between Natasha, whom he protected, and Prince Andrei, the contrast between his position and the position of his friend, further intensified this gloomy mood. He equally tried to avoid thoughts about his wife and about Natasha and Prince Andrei. Again everything seemed insignificant to him in comparison with eternity, again the question presented itself: “why?” And he forced himself to work day and night on Masonic works, hoping to ward off the approach of the evil spirit. Pierre, at 12 o'clock, having left the countess's chambers, was sitting upstairs in a smoky, low room, in a worn dressing gown in front of the table, copying out authentic Scottish acts, when someone entered his room. It was Prince Andrei.
“Oh, it’s you,” said Pierre with an absent-minded and dissatisfied look. “And I’m working,” he said, pointing to a notebook with that look of salvation from the hardships of life with which unhappy people look at their work.
Prince Andrei, with a radiant, enthusiastic face and renewed life, stopped in front of Pierre and, not noticing his sad face, smiled at him with the egoism of happiness.
“Well, my soul,” he said, “yesterday I wanted to tell you and today I came to you for this.” I've never experienced anything like it. I'm in love, my friend.
Pierre suddenly sighed heavily and collapsed with his heavy body on the sofa, next to Prince Andrei.
- To Natasha Rostova, right? - he said.
- Yes, yes, who? I would never believe it, but this feeling is stronger than me. Yesterday I suffered, I suffered, but I wouldn’t give up this torment for anything in the world. I haven't lived before. Now only I live, but I cannot live without her. But can she love me?... I'm too old for her... What aren't you saying?...

VOLKONSKY Sergei Grigorievich, Prince. (12/8/1788 - 11/28/1865). Major General, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 19th Infantry Division of the 2nd Army.
Father - member of the State Council, cavalry general Prince. Grigory Semenovich Volkonsky (25.1.1742 - 17.7.1824), mother - kzh. Alexandra Nikolaevna Repnina (25.4.1756 - 23.12.1834) daughter of Field Marshal Prince. N.V. Repnina), State Lady (from August 22, 1826) and Chief Chamberlain. He was raised at home until the age of 14 under the guidance of the foreigner Frieze and retired lieutenant colonel Baron Kahlenberg (in 1798 he spent several months in the boarding house of Jacquinot, teacher of the 1st Cadet Corps), then in the boarding house of Abbot Nicolas in St. Petersburg (1802-1805). Enlisted as a sergeant in the Kherson Grenadier Regiment - 1.6.1796 (at the age of 8), enlisted as a staff-furier in the headquarters of Field Marshal Suvorov-Rymniksky - 10.7.1796, appointed adjutant in the Aleksopol Infantry Regiment - 1.8.1796, transferred as regimental quartermaster to Old Ingermanland Musketeer Regiment - 9/10/1796, appointed as an aide-de-camp and “renamed” captain to the Ekaterinoslav Cuirassier Regiment - 3/19/1797, transferred to the Rostov Dragoon Regiment - 11/18/1797, returned to the Ekaterinoslav Cuirassier Regiment - 12/15/1797. In active service from December 28, 1805, when he was transferred as a lieutenant to the Life Guards. Cavalry regiment, participant in the campaign of 1806-1807 (distinguished himself in a number of battles, earning the Order of Vladimir 4th class with a bow, a gold badge for Preussisch-Eylau and a golden sword for bravery) and 1810-1811 in Turkey, staff captain - 12/11/1808, granted to adjutant wing - 6.9.1811, captain - 10.18.1811, participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns of 1813-1815, participated in almost all major battles, for distinction in which he was promoted to colonel - 6.9.1812, major general - 15.9. 1813 with retention in the retinue and awarded the orders of Vladimir 3rd class, George 4th class, Anna 2nd class. with diamond signs, Anna 1 tbsp. and several foreign ones. In 1814 he was attached to the head of the dragoon division, appointed brigade commander of the 1st brigade of the 2nd Ulan division - 1816, appointed commander of the 2nd brigade of the 2nd hussar division - 4/20/1818 (he was not in the brigade and did not begin service in it), 7/27/1818 was dismissed on leave abroad until the illness was cured (but did not go abroad) and 5.8 was expelled from command of the brigade and assigned to the head of the same division, appointed brigade commander of the 1st brigade of the 19th infantry division - 14.1.1821. Mason, member of the United Friends lodge (1812), Sphinx lodge (1814), founder of the Three Virtues lodge (1815) and honorary member of the Kyiv lodge of the United Slavs (1820). Behind him there are 1046 souls in the Nizhny Novgorod province and 545 souls in the Yaroslavl province; in 1826 there were up to 280 thousand of them. rub. debt, in addition, he owned 10 thousand acres of land in the Tauride province and a farm near Odessa.
Member of the Welfare Union (1819) and the Southern Society, from 1823 he headed together with V.L. Davydov Kamenskaya Council of the Southern Society, an active participant in the Kyiv congresses “on contracts”, liaised between the Northern and Southern societies.
Arrest order - December 30, 1825, arrested on January 5, 1826 in the 2nd Army, delivered to St. Petersburg on January 14 and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in No. 4 of the Alekseevsky Ravelin (“sent by Prince Sergei Volkonsky to be imprisoned either in the Alekseevsky Ravelin, or where convenient but so that and his arrest was unknown. January 14, 1826").
Convicted of the first category and upon confirmation on July 10, 1826, sentenced to hard labor for 20 years. Sent in chains to Siberia - 7/23/1826 (signs: height 2 arshins 8 1/4 vershoks, “clean face, gray eyes, oblong face and nose, dark brown hair on head and eyebrows, light beard, has a mustache, medium-sized body, right leg in the shin has a wound from a bullet, wears false teeth with one natural front upper tooth"), the term was reduced to 15 years - 8/22/1826, delivered to Irkutsk - 8/29/1826, soon sent to the Nikolaev Distillery, returned from there to Irkutsk - 6.10, sent to the Blagodatsky mine - 8.10, arrived there - 10.25.1826, sent to the Chita prison - 20.9.1827, arrived there - 29.9, arrived at the Petrovsky plant in September 1830, the term was reduced to 10 years - 8.11.1832. At the request of his mother, he was released from hard labor and sent to settle in the Petrovsky plant - 1835; the highest decree allowed him to be transferred to live in the village. Urik, Irkutsk province - 2.8.1836. where he arrived - 26.3.1837, in 1845 he finally moved to Irkutsk. According to the amnesty on August 26, 1856, the nobility was returned to him and his children and allowed to return to European Russia, the children were given the princely title - August 30, left Irkutsk - September 23, 1856. The place of residence was determined to be the village of Zykovo, Moscow district, but he lived almost constantly in Moscow, from October 1858 to August 1859, in 1860-1861, from 1864 abroad, from the spring of 1865 he lived in the village. Funnels of the Kozeletsky district of the Chernigov province, where he died and was buried with his wife.
Wife (from 1/11/1825 in Kyiv) - Maria Nikolaevna Raevskaya. Brothers: Nikolai Grigorievich Repnin-Volkonsky (1778 - 1845), general of the cavalry, with the highest permission, added the name of his grandfather, Field Marshal N.V., to his surname. Repin, who left no heirs in the male line, in 1826 the Little Russian military governor, Nikita (1781 - 1841), retinue major general, sister Sophia (1785 - 1868), married to the Minister of the Court and Appanages, Prince. P.M. Volkonsky.
VD, X, 95-180; GARF, f. 109, 1 exp., 1826, d. 61, part 55.

Vadkovsky Fedor Fedorovich (1800-1844) - Decembrist: from 1823 he was a member of the “Southern Society”; on December 14, 1925 he was an ensign. By court verdict, he was deprived of ranks and nobility, served his sentence in Siberia - eternal hard labor; from July 1839 on the settlement.

Vadkovsky Fedor Fedorovich (1800 - 01/08/1844) - Decembrist. Ensign of the Nezhinsky regiment. Since 1823 - member of the Northern Society of Decembrists. In 1824 he joined the St. Petersburg council of the Southern Society and shared its republican program. Sentenced to eternal hard labor, reduced to 13 years. During the investigation he expressed repentance, but during hard labor in Siberia he returned to his former views. Together with I.I. Pushchin, he initiated the creation of a prison “artel” of Decembrists.

Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1973-1982. Volume 2. BAAL - WASHINGTON. 1962.

Vadkovsky 1st Fedor Fedorovich (1800 - 8.1.1844). Ensign of the Nizhyn Cavalry Regiment (brother of the previous one).
From the nobles. Born on his parents' Eletsk estate in the village. Pyatnitsky. He was educated at the Moscow University boarding school (1810-1812), then under Abbot Lemri in St. Petersburg and at the boarding houses of Ginrichs and Gadenius. He entered service as a second ensign in the Life Guards. Semyonovsky Regiment - 25.1.1818, transferred to the Cavalry Regiment as a cadet - 21.4.1820, estandard cadet - 27.8.1820, cornet - 1.1.1822, “by the highest order for indecent behavior” (jokes about the emperor and a satirical song he composed) transferred to the Nezhinsky Horse-Jager Regiment with renaming to ensigns - 19.6.1824. Poet, memoirist.
Member of the Southern Society (1823), active organizer of the Decembrist cell in the Cavalry Regiment.
According to the instructions of the Chief of the General Staff I.I. Dibicha from 12/9/1825 was arrested in Kursk - 12/11/1825 and taken to Shlisselburg, 12/21/1825 brought to the Peter and Paul Fortress (“We must keep Vatkovsky completely secret, but let him write what he wants, on my face or whoever he wants”) in No. 6 of the Zotov Bastion, 12/22/1825 was taken to the palace for interrogation.
Convicted of the first category and upon confirmation on July 10, 1826 sentenced to hard labor forever. Sent to Kexholm - 7/27/1826, the term was reduced to 20 years - 8/22/1826, sent to Shlisselburg - 4/24/1827, sent to Siberia - 11/17/1827 (height 2 arshins 10 vershoks, “white face, clean, fair hair, brown eyes, long nose"), delivered to the Chita prison - January 5, 1828, arrived at the Petrovsky plant in September 1830, the term was reduced to 15 years - November 8, 1832 and to 13 years - December 14, 1835. At the end of the term, by decree of July 10, 1839, he was appointed to settle in the village. Manzurka of the Irkutsk province, where he did not go, having been released due to illness to the Turkinsky mineral waters, where he stayed until the beginning of September 1839, and then on September 16 he arrived in Irkutsk, at the request of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia V.Ya. Rupert was given the highest permission on September 5, 1840 to settle him in the village. Oek of the Irkutsk district (arrived there on March 16, 1841), where he died, entrusting the disposal of his inheritance to Prince. E.I. Trubetskoy and A.N. Sutgof (the grave has not survived). He was engaged in the trade in clay and bread.

VD, XI, 187-236; GARF, f. 109, 1 exp., 1826, d. 61, part 8, 35.

Materials used from Anna Samal's website "Virtual Encyclopedia of the Decembrists" - http://decemb.hobby.ru/

The portrait was sent by Vladimir Leonidovich Chernyshev, associate professor of NTU “KhPI”, Kharkov.

Read further:

Decembrist movement (References).

Decembrists (biographical reference book).

Rumyantsev V.B. And they went out to the square... (A view from the 21st century).

Essays:

White Church, in collection: Recollections. and stories of figures of secret societies of the 1820s, vol. 1, M., 1931;

Requirements of society, "KA", 1925, vol. 3;

Notre Comité d'enquête en 1825 (verse), in the collection: Decembrists. Materials, M., 1907;

Desires. Song, "KA", 1925, vol. 3;

Three letters from R. P. Vadkovsky to I. I. Pushchin, in the book: Decembrists in the Settlement, (M.), 1926;

Notes of the Department of Manuscripts of the All-Union Library. them. V.I. Lenin, V. 3, M., 1939.

Literature:

Restore Decembrists, vol. 6, 8, 11 M., 1925-54;

Decembrists. 86 portraits, M., (1906).

Fedor Fedorovich Vadkovsky
Officer, Decembrist
1/13 V 1800, p. Pyatnitskoye (Izvaly) Yelets district, Oryol province. –
8/20 I 1844, p. Oyok, Irkutsk province.
Studied at the Moscow University Noble Boarding School

Coming from an aristocratic family (father - senator, mother - nee Count Chernysheva), F.F. Vadkovsky began his education in Moscow, at the University Noble boarding school (1810-1812), and continued it in St. Petersburg, in private boarding schools and in the oldest in Russian gymnasium Petrishule.
He began his military service in St. Petersburg as a lieutenant warrant officer of the Lieutenant-Guards. Semenovsky regiment (from 25 I 1818). Transferred to the Cavalry Regiment as a cadet (21 IV 1820), then an estandard cadet (from 27 VIII 1820) and a cornet (from 1 I 1822). In 1824, he was noticed in “indecent behavior” (according to some sources, these were “criminal conversations”, according to others - a satirical song, according to a third - epigrams on Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich); By the highest decree on June 19, he was arrested and then transferred to the Nezhinsky Cavalry Regiment stationed in Kursk and renamed ensigns.
While still in St. Petersburg, he joined the Northern Secret Society, but his views were more radical than those of his comrades (in particular, he considered it necessary to exterminate the entire royal family), so in 1823, upon the arrival of P.I. Pestel in St. Petersburg, it was decided organize the northern branch of the Southern Society, which was headed by Vadkovsky. Both in St. Petersburg and later in the provinces, he accepted new members into the Society. Subsequently, one of those accepted, Fyodor Vadkovsky’s younger brother Alexander, wrote in his testimony:

In the summer of 1825 in Kursk, Vadkovsky trustingly accepted into the Society a provocateur - non-commissioned officer of the 3rd Ukrainian Lancer Regiment, Englishman Ivan Vasilyevich Sherwood, and in November handed him a secret letter to pass on to Pestel, which he immediately delivered to the one who was part of the retinue of Alexander I in Taganrog Chief of the General Staff I.I. Dibich. Already on December 9, Vadkovsky was arrested; in prison, he knew neither about Pestel’s arrest nor about the uprising on Senate Square on December 14. Further events are described as follows by N.Ya. Eidelman [Eidelman 1970]:

While the committee was clearing out papers and preparing new questions for Ryleev, Trubetskoy and others, Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov kept getting distracted for interrogations. On December 18, 25-year-old ensign Fyodor Vadkovsky of the Nezhinsky regiment was brought to him from the fortress with great precautions and very secretly (he had previously been in the guard, but was transferred to the army for his daring prank). For the first time, Levashov interrogates a person who not only did not participate in the riot on December 14, but did not even suspect what happened on that day: the order to arrest Vadkovsky was signed by Dibich on December 9, and he was taken before anyone else, even before Pestel. Non-commissioned officer Sherwood managed to gain his confidence. "An Englishman of inflexible will, imbued with a sense of honor, true to his word and striving for one goal"- this is how the unfortunate Vadkovsky characterized this traitor precisely in that letter to Pestel dated November 3, 1825, which Sherwood presented to the authorities. The letter mentioned 9 members of the secret society or people close to it (Svistunov, Grabbe, Mikhail Orlov, Tolstoy, Baryatinsky, Sergei and Matvey Muravyov-Apostles, Hoffman, Bobrinsky). Vadkovsky is the “trump card” in Nikolai’s game (ordered to contain "under strict guard and in deep secrecy"). None of the Decembrists should know about his arrest - let the new victims not guess where they found out about them, let them be confused from surprise... At first, Vadkovsky was even kept outside the capital - in Shlisselburg; then he was transferred to the Peter and Paul Fortress, but not to the Alekseevsky Ravelin, where he might be accidentally recognized, but to the still empty Zotov Bastion. Probably, the sudden arrest and the thick secret stunned and broke the nervous and impressionable officer: Levashov’s first interrogation revealed many more new names than Sherwood’s denunciation.

Indeed, the behavior during the investigation of many Decembrists, starting with K.F. Ryleev, was distinguished by the simple-minded frankness with which they gave “honest testimony” both to themselves and to their comrades-in-arms (one of the few exceptions is I.I. Pushchin, no one not issued). Subsequently, in prison and in Siberia, they did not overshadow their friendly relations with memories of the fact that some of them, wittingly or unwittingly, harmed others. The Supreme Court imposed unprecedentedly severe punishments on everyone. The sentence against F.F. Vadkovsky read: “he intended to commit regicide and exterminate the entire imperial family, and incited others to it; participated in the plot to carry out a riot and in the spread of a secret society by accepting comrades into it.” Sentenced to "death by beheading." Subsequently, the execution was replaced (after the deprivation of ranks and nobility) by eternal hard labor.
The day of execution of the five Decembrists arrived - July 13, 1826.
Decembrist Nikolai Romanovich Tsebrikov recalls [Tsebrikov 1989, p. 430–433]:

At two o'clock in the morning the chains rang for the last time. Five Martyrs were led to hang in the ditch of the Kronverk curtain. On the way, Sergei Muravyov the Apostle said loudly to the accompanying priest that you are leading five thieves to Golgotha ​​- and “who,” the priest answered, “will be at the right hand of the Father.” Ryleev, approaching the gallows, said: “Ryleev dies like a villain, may Russia remember him!” At three o'clock in the morning, all the prisoners were taken out of the fortress to the square, where they burned their uniforms and broke their swords over their heads in front of the first grenadier companies lined up by the Guards Corps. Adjutant General Chernyshev ordered a large square to be brought to the gallows. Then Fyodor Vadkovsky shouted: “On veut nous rendre témoins de l’exécution de nos camarades. Ce serait une indignité infome de rester témoins impassibles d’une pareille chose. Arrachons les fusils aux soldats et jettons-nous en avant” (‘They want to force us to witness the massacre of our comrades. Let’s snatch the guns from the soldiers and rush forward!’). Many voices answered: “Oui, oui, oui, faisons-ça, faisons-ça” (“Yes, yes, yes, let’s do this, let’s do this!”), but Chernyshev and those with him, hearing this, suddenly turned the big square and ordered to go to the fortress. Chernyshev showed extraordinary jealousy during the execution with this maneuver. The hellish idea to let one admire the gallows on which the Martyrs were already hanging belongs to Chernyshev himself

On July 27, 1826, Vadkovsky, together with A.P. Baryatinsky, I.I. Gorbachevsky and V.K. Küchelbecker, was sent to Kexholm (Priozersk), where the prisoners were kept in the same casemates where members of the family of Emelyan Pugachev once sat. In April 1827, Vadkovsky was transferred to Shlisselburg, already familiar to him, and in November of the same year he was sent to Siberia. (The accompanying documents read: “Signs: height 2 arsh. 10 versh.”, “white face, clean, light brown hair, brown eyes, long nose.”) In January 1828 he was delivered to the Chita prison, in September 1830 transferred to Petrovsky plant. At the end of his term in 1839, he was appointed to settle in the village. Manzurka, Irkutsk province, later replaced by the village. Oyok, where he ended his days.
There is a lot of evidence left about Vadkovsky’s stay in Siberia. At hard labor he taught a course in astronomy to his comrades. He studied the history of the Decembrist movement: based on the story of three participants in the uprising of the Chernigov regiment, he compiled the note “White Church”, first published by Herzen. A virtuoso violinist, Vadkovsky organized a string quartet in the Chita prison, in which he played the first violin. Among the works performed were songs of Decembrist poets (A. Odoevsky, A. Bestuzhev, K. Ryleev, etc.), set to music by Vadkovsky. At the Petrovsky plant, together with Pushchin and the Poggio brothers, he developed the “Charter of the convict artel for managing all the affairs of the artel” - a document that greatly facilitated the life and working conditions of the Decembrists.
In 1907, a satirical song by Vadkovsky was published in French, dedicated to the Investigative Committee in 1825. And only in 1925, in the magazine “Red Archive” (No. 3), two Russian poems by Vadkovsky that we cited, which were found in archives of the Decembrists (at the same time, the poem “Song” remained unattributed for a long time).

N.N. Pertsova

Main sources: [Decembrists; RP:1800, vol. 1; Eidelman 1970].

FEDOR FEDOROVICH VADKOVSKY

(1800-1844)

For writing satirical poems that have not reached us. book Mikhail Pavlovich cornet of the cavalry regiment Fyodor Fedorovich Vadkovsky was transferred in June 1824 to one of the army regiments located in Kursk. A member of the Northern and Southern societies, Vadkovsky belonged to the extreme left flank: he talked about the need for regicide. He was initially sentenced to life in hard labor, and only later was the term reduced to thirty years. Vadkovsky occasionally wrote poetry in Russian and French. Only very little has survived. Perhaps he participated in the creation of a cycle of propaganda songs by Ryleev - Bestuzhev.

WISHES

Do you remember us, Holy Rus', our mother,
Or, my dear, are they not telling you to even remember?
The Russian God gave you good children,
And your beast king sent them all to Siberia!
<Вот за что хотели мы нашу кровь пролить.>
To buy you a will with that blood,
To break the chain of people in Rus',
So that the little soldiers do not have to endure centuries of service;
So that everywhere and everyone has the same court
And so that no one ever hears about the whip again,
So that they judge out loud, and not secretly, not silently
And so that everyone gets their due;
So that everyone can think and write boldly,
Proclaim Mother Truth to the whole world;
So that your people can govern themselves,
So that through the chosen he may deliver laws,
So that everyone protects those laws more than their eyes,
Remembering to yourself: the voice of the people is God’s voice!
To establish schools everywhere in Rus',
So that the peasants could not be cheated;
So that there would be neither nobles nor nobles,
Those parasites who live at the expense of the peasants.
This is what we wanted to get for you;
This is why your king ordered us to be chained!
Remember us: don’t forget the children...
At least remember them sometimes for their love!

« Red archive. 1925, No. 3 (based on a copy in the notebook “From the papers of Prince A.B. Lobanov-Rostovsky” - Central State Archive of the October Revolution).

Free Russian poetry of the 18th-19th centuries. Will join. article, comp., intro. notes, preparation text and notes S. A. Racer. L., Sov. writer, 1988 (Poet's book. Large series)

Art. 4 had in his autograph (lost in the 1920s) var. “And your poor king,” v. 5 restored by E. E. Yanushkin in publ. "Red Archive" from memory.

The article was written in Siberia no later than 1843 and is a stylization in the folk spirit; summarizes the program of the Decembrists (both Northern and Southern societies). The authorship of F. F. Vadkovsky is confirmed by the leaflet he wrote “Society’s Demands,” which lists, in the same sequence as in the article, the main points of the organization’s political program: “1. Destruction of autocracy. 2. Liberation of the peasants. 3. Transformations in the army. 4. Equality before the law. 5. Abolition of corporal punishment. 6. Publicity of legal proceedings. 7. Freedom of printing. 8. Recognition of people's power. 9. House of Representatives. 10. Public army or guard. 11. Initial training. 12. Destruction of estates” (“Red Archive”. 1925, No. 3. P. 319).