Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I a ia e mahi ana i te Whare Wānanga o Moscow, i whakatūria e Muravyov te Mathematical Society, ā, ka riro ia hei tumuaki. I whai mana ia i te Pakanga Patriotic o 1812 a i whara ia i Borodino. I te tau 1816 ka noho ia hei kai-whakarewa o te tuatahi
Ko nga hapori o Decembrist, a, ahakoa kaore ia i uru kaha ki te nekehanga i muri o te 1820, i hopukina ia e nga pirihimana i muri i to ratou whakaoho kore i te marama o Tihema 1825. E ai ki ētahi pūtake, i mahi tahi ia ki te rangahau e hoko ana i tōna herekore i tēnei ara.