The initial banner featured the inscription of this motto in Polish and Russian, highlighting the Polish anti-imperial insurrectionists' support for the anti-Tsarist Decembrists' revolt.

最初的横幅上用波兰语和俄语写着这句座右铭，突出了波兰反帝起义者对反沙皇的十二月党人起义的支持。

And how could he do that without telling the story of 1812, when Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia helped trigger the authoritarianism the Decembrists were rebelling against?

这又不得不谈到1812年时，拿破仑对俄罗斯的入侵事件，触发了十二月党人所反对的专制主义。

He then settled into Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral mansion, to write about the return of the Decembrists, a band of well-born revolutionaries pardoned in 1856 after 30 years in exile.

他后来定居在 Yasnaya Polyana， 这也是他的祖居，在这里他写下了十二月党人的回归，即一群出身良好的改革分子 在经历30年流放后于1856年被赦免。

But, Tolstoy thought, how could he tell the story of the Decembrists return from exile without telling the story of 1825, when they revolted against the conservative Tsar Nicholas I?

但托尔斯泰认为，如果不描述十二月党人在1825年对沙皇尼古拉斯二世进行的起义，那该如何描写十二月党人的结束流放呢？

In the author's eyes the huge War and Peace was only a sort of preface to a contemporary epic, of which The Decembrists was to have been the nucleus.

在作者眼中，宏大的《战争与和平》只是一部当代史诗的序曲，《十二月党人》本应是这部史诗的核心。

Pushkin spent several years in exile because of the anti-authoritarian spirit of his works, which were appreciated by the Decembrists, participants in a failed uprising against Nicholas I in 1825.

普希金因其作品的反独裁精神而流放了几年，十二月党人对他的作品表示赞赏，十二月党人参加了 1825 年反对尼古拉一世的失败起义。

Later, in January, 1876, he conceived the idea of another romance of the period of Nikolas I.; then he eagerly returned to the Decembrists, collecting the evidence of survivors and visiting the scenes of the action.

后来，在 1876 年 1 月， 他构思了尼古拉一世时期的另一部传奇故事。 然后他急切地回到十二月党人身边， 收集幸存者的证据并参观行动现场。