Baryatinsky Aleksandr Petrovich

7/18.1.1798 - 19/31.8.1844

General Information As a soldier, joined the Southern Society of Decembrists, made friends with Pestel and on his behalf formed a terrorist group for the extermination of the royal family. The author's unfinished poem "On God", a book of poems, Hours of leisure in Tulchin, "do not come down to us the philosophical works of the materialist. B. denied the existence of the supernatural in nature, reasonableness and expediency of the world, with the atheistic position criticized by Voltaire.

Teaching God.
Oh, we divide the altar, which he did not deserve. Or is he good, but not all-powerful, or omnipotent, but not the benefits. Please give thought to the nature, the history, you will understand then, finally, that for their own glory of God, in the form of evil, which covers the whole world, even if God existed - would have to reject it.
(Izbr. Sots .- polit. philosopher. Random. Decembrist. M., 1951. T. 2. S. 440).

1 Main works. Selected socio-political works of the Decembrists. v.2 L. 1951 2. Decembrist revolt. Materials. v.10. L. 1953
Works Izbr. socio-political and Philosophy. Random. Decembrist. L., 1951. T. 2;
Decembrist revolt: Materials. Moscow, Leningrad, 1953. T. 10.

Literature History of Philosophy in the USSR. M., 1968. T. 2. S. 170-196; Decembrists and Russian Culture. , 1975; Azadkovsky mK. Pages of History Decembrist. Irkutsk, 1991.