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Alexander Odoevski
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poet and Decembrist Alexander Odoevski spent one year in Ishym. In 1836
he was convoyed to Ishym after six years of penalty servitude and three
years of exile near Irkutsk. Hard deprivations did not win the morals of
the poet, and he wrote:
‘Hard labour of ours will never fade away,
And a flame will flare up out of sparkle one day’.
In Siberia Odoevski wrote his most passionate poems that were
distributed among the Decembrists, and were regarded as the expression
of their aspirations and desires. In Ishym Odoevski mostly contacted
exile Polish rebels, among whom there were a lot of educated and
advanced people. Those contacts could not pass unnoticed in the poems of
Odoevski. His friendship with Adolf Yanushkevich was described as a
romantic legend. Odoevski devoted a poem to Yanushkevich. The town of
Ishym still remembers Alexander Odoevski. A bronze bust of Odoevski was
installed on one of the streets.
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