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NICHOLAS DANILOFF'S ABSORBING STORY
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TWO LIVES, ONE RUSSIA, by Nicholas Daniloff. Houghton
Mifflin. 302 pp. $19.95. Illustrated.
On Dec. 14, 1825, inspired by the American and French
revolutions, by the United States Constitution and by Russia's
defeat of Napoleon, a patriotic group of Russian aristocrats
attempted to overthrow Czar Nicholas I.
They are known to history as Decembrists. Their uprising was
crushed. Some were executed. Most were sent to Siberia. Among them
was one Alexander Frolov, im...
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