Decembrist adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists.War and Peace grew out of Tolstoy's attempts to write a Decembrist novel, a work that first began to take shape in October 1856, when "The Distant Field" was begun. — 2008 noun1 •(historical) A participant in, or sympathizer with, the Decembrist revolt. formsDecembrists
