Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky (; – ) was a Russian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, who participated in the

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. After the war, when living in

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, he became a leading member of the Southern Society of Decembrists. The world's only known statue of him is located in Tiraspol.

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1795 births 1872 deaths Male poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress Decembrists {{Russia-poet-stub