Ryleyev Kondraty Fedorovich, a brief biography of which will be discussed below, left an amazing mark in Russian history and literature. He was closely acquainted with A.S. Pushkin and A.S. Griboedov, but their relationship was based on common literary interests. Much stronger comradely ties connected Ryleyev with the Republicans P.G. Kakhovsky, M.P. Bestuzhev-Rumin and others. From school, we know that these people are Decembrists, and five of them gave their lives in the struggle against the autocracy. But what exactly formed Kondraty Ryleev as a person, what paths led him to the dungeons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and then to the scaffold?
Childhood and youth
A short biography of Ryleyev says that he was born in September 1795, and was executed in July 1826. From this we can conclude that he died very young - he was only thirty years old. But in such a short period of time, the writer and public figure managed to write a lot, and even more to do. Kondraty spent his childhood in the estate of his father, a small landowner, in the village of Batovo near Petersburg. He chose a military career for his son, and for six years already, the boy was sent to study in the capital, in the First Cadet Corps.
A short biography of Ryleyev will not be complete without a description of the next stage in the life of a revolutionary, since it is very important, although at first glance it does not seem so. In 1814, a newly minted artillery officer departed for France after the Russian army, crushing Napoleon Bonaparte. Life in the “defeated” country made an indelible impression on Ryleyev. If he lived in the 21st century, one could say that he became a fan of the idea of "European integration", but since only the 19th century began, Raleyev had no choice but to become a republican. At first, he took a moderate position and defended the
constitutional monarchy, but the Restoration forced him to change his views to more radical ones.
Return to Russia
Returning to his homeland, Ryleyev served in the army for a short time. He retired in 1818, and two years later he married with passionate and passionate love the daughter of the Voronezh landowner Tevyashev, Natalya Mikhailovna. A short biography of Ryleyev says that the couple had two children: a son who died in infancy, and a daughter. To feed his family, Kondraty Fedorovich got a job as an assessor of the St. Petersburg Criminal Chamber. In 1820, the first work of Ryleyev the writer, the satirical ode to the temporary worker, saw the light of day, where the author fell upon the morals of the Arakcheevschina.
Literary and social activities
In 1823, Ryleyev joined the Northern Society, and, together with Bestuzhev, began to issue the Polar Star almanac. Together with Griboedov, he was a member of a literary circle with a bias in freethinking, called the "Scientific Republic". He also tried himself as an interpreter from Polish, thanks to which Glinsky's “Dumas” came out in Russia. A short biography of Ryleyev is ranked among the main works of the writer, such as “Ivan Susanin”, “The Death of Ermak”, as well as the poems “Nalivaiko” and “Voinarovsky”. But most of all he was glorified by social activity. The brain and engine of the Northern Society of the Decembrists was precisely K.F. Ryleev. A brief biography indicates that since he was a civilian, he did not stand in a revolutionary square on Sennaya Square. Ryleyev only came there, but this fact alone was enough to earn the death sentence. He was one of those three hangers under whom the rope broke, but contrary to custom, the sentence was nevertheless carried out.