Abstract
Family upbringing and education are generally held to be the crucial formative experiences of our lives. Parental influences and role models in particular are said to shape and mould individual development from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Such reconstruction of Pavel Ivanovich Pestel’s education and upbringing as our sources will permit, provides an indispensable prelude to our study of the mature Russian army officer, political thinker and Decembrist conspirator. This chapter explores, therefore, Pestel’s family background and circumstances, focusing particularly on his parents, and his education at the elite Corps of Pages.
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O’Meara, P. (2003). Education and Upbringing. In: The Decembrist Pavel Pestel. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504608_2
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