Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev October 23 [November 3] 1797, St. Petersburg - June 7 [19], 1837, Fort of the Holy Spirit, now the Adler microdistrict of Sochi) - Russian Byronist writer, critic, publicist of the Romantic era, descended from the Bestuzhev family. Published under the pseudonym Marley? nsky. Decembrist.