Konstantin Igelström
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| Born | May 8, 1799 Shumsk, Russia |
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| Died | November 11, 1851 (aged 52) Taganrog, Russia |
Konstantin Gustavovich Igelström (Russian: Игельстром, Константин Густавович; 1799 - 1851) Russian Decembrist from the noble Swedish family of Igelström.
Konstantin Igelstrom was born in the city of Shumsk on May 8, 1799. He graduated from the Cadets Corps in 1816 and was made captain in 1825.
Founder and head of the secret Society of Military Friends, who initiated the protest of the Livland Pioneer Battalion, arrested on December 27, 1825 and put under surveillance in Belostok. The military court sentenced Igelstrom to death, but the highest decree of Nicholas I of Russia of April 15, 1827 deprived him of all nobility titles and condemned to penal servitude during 10 years in Siberia. After serving the sentence, he was prohibited from visiting Moscow or Saint Petersburg and settled in the city of Taganrog in 1843, where he worked as the assistant to the supervisor of the Taganrog's Customs' bonded warehouse. He died on November 11, 1851 and was buried at the Taganrog's old cemetery.
