Gorbatchevski Ivan Ivanovich

(1800 - 1869); his father had served as treasurer in Mogilev-provincial, accounted for similar to Archbishop George Konisskomu. Gorbatchevski served in the 8 th Artillery Brigade, in 1820, Mr.. adopted in secret Slavic Society and was one of the founders of the United Slavs. In it, he held a prominent position. Commission of Inquiry took him to the first category of convicted and sentenced to death "beheading" and this sentence was commuted to life at hard labor Confirmation. Gorbatchevski served her in Kexholm, Schluesselburg and in Siberia - in the Chita prison and in the Petrovsky factory. In 1839, Mr.. was released on settlement. Likewise reached an amnesty, he did not want to return to European Russia, which managed to lose the connection, but remained in Siberia, and took place conciliator. This was a man of unusual moral purity and rigor, and at the same time, a rare kindness. As a conciliator, he was loved by the public; himself ever need, it largely himself refused to help others, and personally set up a kind of "patronage" for criminals who have served sentences. He left a note on the important southern society and the resulting business December 14, 1825, Mr.. accidents in the south (published in "Russian Archive", 1882, Prince. I, under the title "Notes of the unknown"). He is the news of the ban supreme Duma members of the Southern society "to get acquainted with the poet A.S. Pushkin, a man who "in nature and cowardice, on his dissolute life will report immediately to the Government of the existence of a secret society". Among the revolutionaries of Alexander's time it was a minor figure, but very typical of pronounced psychology Decembrist. About Gorbachev cm. "Russian Archive", 1882, II, 311; The Decembrists. 86 Portraits. Text rm. Golovacheva, ed. MM. Zenzinov (M., 1906, p.. 89 - 91) H. Lerner, "The Decembrists and Pushkin" ( "Speech", 1912, N 82); his letter to the MA. Bestuzhev are in the Public Library (cm. report it for 1900 - 1901 years, p. 252); letter to Prince E.P. Obolensky - "Russian Antiquities", 1903, t. 115.