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Beautiful, cultivated, the daughter of a hero of the Napoleonic wars, Maria Volkonsky had been married only one year when in 1825 the tsar sentenced her husband to life imprisonment in Siberia. Despite her family's and the tsar's opposition, Maria was determined to join her husband in exile. She was more than halfway there when the tsar decreed that she could never return from Siberia.Sutherland, Christine is the author of 'Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles' with ISBN 9780374237271 and ISBN 0374237271.
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