Category: ClickWisdom
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The Ryleyev Story: Words Can Undo Your Work or Efforts
NARRATIVE Kondraty Ryleyev was condemned to death by Czar Nicholas I after the failed Decembrist uprising. At the gallows, the rope snapped — by custom, grounds for a pardon.Rather than kneel, Ryleyev mocked Russia for not knowing how to make rope. Word reached the Czar. The pardon was torn up. He was hanged the next…
Robert Rost 