This mantle clock was presented as a gift to Decembrist Gavriil Batenkov by his friends and allies Andrei Obolensky and Petr Svistunov.
Gavriil Batenkov was born in Tobolsk in 1793 году. In 1812 he joined the military, participated in the Patriotic War and the foreign campaigns of 1813-1814.
In 1821, Batenkov joined the Northern Society of Decembrists. He did not participate in the uprising at the Senate Square on December 14, 1825 but was arrested two weeks later and convicted. Nicholas I personally pronounced his punishment: Batenkov spent 20 years in solitary confinement in Peter and Paul Fortress. Then followed an exile to Siberia and Batenkov lived in Tomsk until 1856.
After the amnesty he settled in the Tula governorate in the Elagin family for a short time, in 1857 he purchased a small estate in Kaluga at Dvoryanskaya Street. Its current address is 42 Suvorov Street. The house was frequented by Batenkov’s friends – Decembrists Petr Svistunov, Evgeny Obolensky, Nikolai Kashkin, Nikolai Serno-Solovievich, Ivan Kireyev, who also moved to Kaluga after the amnesty.
Batenkov took an active part in the Kaluga Committee of Governorate Nobility On Improving the Conditions of Life of Landlords’ Peasants, was involved in matters of statistics, popular education, municipal development, water supply. He died in Kaluga at age 69 and according to his will was buried in the Tula Governorate, the village of Petrischevo, Belevsk uyezd (county) next to the grave of his friend Alexei Elagin.
Decembrist Petr Svistunov, one of Batenkov’s friends, served as cornet in Chevalier Guards. After the uprising of 1825, he was arrested on charges of regicide intent and was sentenced to hard labor for 20 years. His term was soon reduced and following amnesty he was even granted the rights of aristocrat by birth.
In 1857, he settled in Kaluga. Having received from his brother a part of their father’s inheritance – estates in Likhvinsk and Kozelsk uyezd – Svistunov also became a member Kaluga Committee of Governorate Nobility On Improving the Conditions of Life of Landlords’ Peasants. In 1860, he was appointed an honorable trustee of the female gymnasium established in Kaluga, where his daughter was a student. Svistunov participated together with Batenkov in the activities of the Kaluga Committee for Abolition of Illiteracy.
Gavriil Batenkov was born in Tobolsk in 1793 году. In 1812 he joined the military, participated in the Patriotic War and the foreign campaigns of 1813-1814.
In 1821, Batenkov joined the Northern Society of Decembrists. He did not participate in the uprising at the Senate Square on December 14, 1825 but was arrested two weeks later and convicted. Nicholas I personally pronounced his punishment: Batenkov spent 20 years in solitary confinement in Peter and Paul Fortress. Then followed an exile to Siberia and Batenkov lived in Tomsk until 1856.
After the amnesty he settled in the Tula governorate in the Elagin family for a short time, in 1857 he purchased a small estate in Kaluga at Dvoryanskaya Street. Its current address is 42 Suvorov Street. The house was frequented by Batenkov’s friends – Decembrists Petr Svistunov, Evgeny Obolensky, Nikolai Kashkin, Nikolai Serno-Solovievich, Ivan Kireyev, who also moved to Kaluga after the amnesty.
Batenkov took an active part in the Kaluga Committee of Governorate Nobility On Improving the Conditions of Life of Landlords’ Peasants, was involved in matters of statistics, popular education, municipal development, water supply. He died in Kaluga at age 69 and according to his will was buried in the Tula Governorate, the village of Petrischevo, Belevsk uyezd (county) next to the grave of his friend Alexei Elagin.
Decembrist Petr Svistunov, one of Batenkov’s friends, served as cornet in Chevalier Guards. After the uprising of 1825, he was arrested on charges of regicide intent and was sentenced to hard labor for 20 years. His term was soon reduced and following amnesty he was even granted the rights of aristocrat by birth.
In 1857, he settled in Kaluga. Having received from his brother a part of their father’s inheritance – estates in Likhvinsk and Kozelsk uyezd – Svistunov also became a member Kaluga Committee of Governorate Nobility On Improving the Conditions of Life of Landlords’ Peasants. In 1860, he was appointed an honorable trustee of the female gymnasium established in Kaluga, where his daughter was a student. Svistunov participated together with Batenkov in the activities of the Kaluga Committee for Abolition of Illiteracy.
