Our kinship is not an empty phrase..."The Decembrists, their relatives, and their descendants in the Olonets province
The article, based on archival documents, academic publications and studies by local historians, memoirs of contemporaries, and materials on the genealogy of noble families, presents the first-of-its-kind study about the Decembrists, their relatives, and their descendants who lived and served in the Olonets province. It turned out that nine out of thirty-three Olonets governors, P. P. Konovnitsyn, G. R. Derzhavin, A. M. Okulov, T. E. Van-der-Vliet, H. H. Povalo-Shveikovsky, V. N. Muravyov, Yu. A. Dolgorukov, G. G. Grigoryev, and N. V. Protasyev, as well as three vice-governors, B. I. Pestel, L. A. Kozhevnikov, and S. D. Gorchakov, had direct family ties to the Decembrists