V. Vranitski (1782-1832)

Vassili Vranitski, a colonel and a member of the Southern society was accused by the 8th grade. According to his contemporaries he was a person of varied interests who could paint and play the violin well. He arrived to Yalutorovsk in 1830. Before this he was exiled to Pelym where he got seriously ill. He had no relatives in Russia who could support him in heavy financial circumstances. He was only given a scanty soldiers ration. Despite the attempts of his friends Decembrists to help him, his physical and mental state would continue to get worse. He lost inclination towards life and kept house. Not long before his death he was asked what would be his wishes as to the conditions of his exile. His answer was the following: ‘I do not want to have a will of my own, since I have been long ago morally dead’. Vranitski died in Yalutorovsk in 1832. His tomb was lost afterwards, since it was forbidden to get state criminals buried within the town cemeteries. In 1922 a monument in the form of a mournful angel was installed to Vranitski on the old cemetery where the Decembrists were buried.