Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An ba Volkonsky mukamin Manjo Janar bayan yakin Großbeeren da yakin Dennewitz. An ji masa rauni a yakin Eylau. Shi ne kawai janar wanda har yanzu yake aiki wanda ya shiga cikin shirin Decembrist
na 1825, ƙoƙari na cimma canji na sassaucin ra'ayi ta hanyar hana tsayar da Tsar Nicholas I. Bayan gazawar tawaye, an same shi da laifi kuma an yanke masa hukuncin yanke kansa, wanda daga baya aka canza shi zuwa kurkuku. Yarima Volkonsky ya tafi aiki a cikin ma'adinai kusa da Irkutsk kuma ya shafe shekaru 30 a matsayin 'yan gudun hijirar siyasa a Siberia. Matarsa Maria Rayevskaya ta bi shi zuwa Siberia. An ga wahalarsu da wahalarsu, a cikin al'adun Rasha na baya, a matsayin kayan babban almara na Romantic. Nikolay Nekrasov ya bayyana su a cikin doguwar waka. Oleg Strizhenov ya taka rawar Volkonsky a cikin fim ɗin Soviet na 1975 "Tauraruwar farin ciki mai ban sha'awa".