The poet Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Pushkin's school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Kuchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by Yury Tynyanov. Publisher: Academic Studies Press Author(s): Christopher Rush Number of pages: 340 Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 27 Cover type: Paperback / softback