Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 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 yana aiki a cikin aikin da ya shiga cikin
Rikicin Decembrist na 1825, ƙoƙari ne na cimma sauye-sauye na sassaucin ra'ayi ta hanyar hana hawan Tsar Nicholas I. Bayan gazawar tawaye, an same shi da laifi kuma an yanke masa hukuncin fille kansa, wanda daga baya aka canza shi zuwa rai a 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".