Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I whakatairangahia a Volkonsky hei Major General i muri i te Pakanga o Großbeeren me te Pakanga o Dennewitz. I whara ia i te Pakanga o Eylau. Ko ia anake te tumuaki i mahi tonu i te mahi i uru ki te whakatikatika a Decembrist
o 1825, he ngana ki te whakatutuki i te whakarereke liberal ma te aukati i te urunga mai o Tsar Nicholas I. Whai muri i te hinganga o te tutu, i kitea ia he hara, i whakawakia ki te whakamomori, i hopukina ki te whare herehere. I haere a Prince Volkonsky ki te mahi i nga maina e tata ana ki Irkutsk, a ka noho ia mo nga tau 30 hei whakaraunga torangapu i Siberia. I whai atu tana wahine a Maria Rayevskaya ki a ia ki Siberia. Ko o raatau raru me o raatau raru kua kitea, i roto i te tikanga a Ruhia o muri mai, hei taonga mo te pakiwaitara Romance nui. I whakaahuatia e Nikolay Nekrasov i roto i tētahi waiata roa. I takaro a Oleg Strizhenov i te wahanga o Volkonsky i te kiriata Soviet 1975 "Te Whetu Whakamiharo o te Harikoa".