The book examines the role and place of the Decembrist movement in the general European national liberation movement. It is written on a variety of domestic and foreign documentary material, which allows the author to most fully and vividly show the perception by the Decembrists of modern revolutions in Spain, Italy, the liberation movement in the Balkans, etc., to talk about the establishment of ideological ties between the Decembrists and the leaders of the European revolutionary movement. The author also explores the question of the origin and development of international traditions in the Russian revolutionary movement, about the responses of advanced Europe to the Decembrist uprising.