Konstantin Gustavovich Igelström (; 1799 - 1851) Russian

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from the noble Swedish family of Igelström. Konstantin Igelstrom was born in the city of

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on 8 May 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 27 December 1825 and put under surveillance in Białystok. The military court sentenced Igelstrom to death, but the highest decree of

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of 15 April 1827 deprived him of all nobility titles and condemned to penal servitude during 10 years in

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. After serving the sentence, he was prohibited from visiting

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and settled in the city of

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in 1843, where he worked as the assistant to the supervisor of the Taganrog's Customs'

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. He died on 11 November 1851 and was buried at the

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* Таганрог. Энциклопедия, Таганрог, издательство АНТОН, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Igelstrom, Konstantin 1799 births 1851 deaths People from Shumsk People from Volhynian Governorate Baltic-German people Russian nobility Swedish nobility Decembrists Russian people of Swedish descent