January 8, 1826 from Moscow to the fortress was taken by Colonel Tarutino Infantry Regiment, a member of the Northern Society of Decembrists Mikhail Naryshkin. Not even two years from the time of a very different kings decree - to grant the maid of honor and Countess Elizabeth Konovnitsyn twelve thousand in connection with the wedding of her and Naryshkin ... Elizabeth was the only daughter of the hero of 1812, the General and former Minister of War Count Konovnitsyn. Since childhood, she was surrounded by rich and influential relatives who identified the young girl in the maid of honor of the Empress Maria Feodorovna. Memorial Day December 14, 1825, Colonel Naryshkin met in Moscow, and the eighth of January of the following year began his Way of the Cross - says a senior fellow of the Stavropol regional museum Viktor Kravchenko. - Under the escort he was taken to the fortress. Only a month after Elizabeth succeeded her husband gifts jailers to convey the kind of thing so necessary in cold dungeons. Later, Mikhail Mikhailovich recalled: I was sitting in the fortress, and heart aches for his wife. That gave me to know that such and such a night, at dusk, it will come to the bank of the Neva, that even from afar, through the window, I see. Conventional signs was playing horn. I sit by the window with iron bars, waiting. Here I hear the horn plays, eyestrain, see - far away on the opposite bank, the wife dressed ohtenkoy, stands and waves his handkerchief to me. Naryshkin was convicted in knowledge about the intent to kill the Czar, but without the consent and without contradiction tokmo reports and sentenced to twelve years in prison, followed by reference to the settlement. Prison term was later reduced to eight years. Elizabeth Petrovna had forgotten about his nobility and wealth and shared destiny with her beloved husband, having obtained permission from the Empress to follow him to Siberia. In May of the same year, together with Alexandra, the wife of the Decembrist Yentaltseva, she arrived in Chita jail. On the exterior of Elizabeth that time can be seen in the portrait of the NA Bestuzheva, written in the Petrovsky factory in 1832, which reported Naryshkin mother Anna Ivanovna: ... I like it. After serving their prison was transferred to the city of Kurgan - continues Vladimir Kravchenko. - Climate change when moving from the Petrovsky factory initially beneficial effect on the health of Elizabeth, but then she began again nervously previous seizures and spasmodic attacks of asthma. In early 1835, she filed after Earl A. Benckendorf petition Empress About moving with her husband in one of the southern provinces of Russia. But this request was denied. In Nicholas I approved property status of wives of the Decembrists said that innocent wives state criminals dividing marital relationship with them, until the death of their husbands should be considered a ssylnokatorzhnyh wives .... Five years lived in Naryshkin Nerchinsk mines, five - on the settlement in Kurgan province of Tobolsk. Ambient noted that Elizabeth kept a few arrogant, but a closer look revealed as a good and noble man, boundlessly loyal to her husband and his comrades. Heres what he wrote about their life in Kurgan N. Lorer, author of Notes of a Decembrist: The family of the Naryshkin was true benefactors of the whole region. Both of them, both husband and wife, helped the poor, treated and given medication to patients for their money, and often, no matter what the weather, Naryshkin took with him a priest and went from village to village lodge last dying Christian consolation. Courtyard them on Sundays was usually full of people who were handing out food, clothes and money. When in 1837 by M. Naryshkin imperial order is defined as a private in the Caucasus, Elizabeth again followed him. Relationship spouses differed infinite warmth, affection and devotion. When in January 1863 did not become Mikhail, E. Decembrist Obolensky in the obituary published in the newspaper The Day, said: ... He came into the marriage with Countess Elizabeth Konovnitsyn and it found the fullness of compassion, which is expressed in the life of perfect harmony - and aspirations, and goals in life, and hopes, and desires. In this heartfelt union leaked many, many years. And the Caucasus, with its formidable strongholds, and Siberia with its deserts, they were all together, and all their heart life, shortcomings of the fullness of one another, expressed in pure love, reflected in the whole structure of life. Four years after her husband died and Elizabeth. She was buried next to him. Two black marble tombstones stand in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
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