Konstantin Gustavovich Igelström (; 1799 - 1851) Russian Decembrist from the noble Swedish family of Igelström. Konstantin Igelstrom was born in the city of

Shumsk Shumsk (, ; ; ) is a city in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shumsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population is Until 18 July 2020, Shumsk was the administrative center of Shumsk Raion ...

on 8 May 1799. He graduated from the

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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

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. The military court sentenced Igelstrom to death, but the highest decree of

Nicholas I of Russia Nicholas I, group=pron (Russian language, Russian: Николай I Павлович; – ) was Emperor of Russia, List of rulers of Partitioned Poland#Kings of the Kingdom of Poland, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 18 ...

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 Taganrog Old Cemetery.

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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 from the Russian Empire Nobility from the Russian Empire Swedish nobility Decembrists People from the Russian Empire of Swedish descent