How the nobles do, not the courtyard - Benkendorf's speech in the Decembrist investigation.

Just a completely new perspective on this historic personality.
In the investigation in the case of the “Decabrists” – Alexander Christoforovich Benkendorf for the first interrogation gathered all the accused and told them the following:
“Are you claiming that you have risen for freedom for the bonds and the Constitution? and praise. I ask those of you who gave this very freedom to the servants - not to drive them out on the street, so that they die like homeless dogs, hungry under the fence, but let go with the ground, lifting and strength help - raise your hand. If there are such, the case against them will be terminated, since they actually act according to their own conscience. I am waiting. There is no one?
As strange as it is... I let his serfs go to Livonia in 1816 and to Tambov province in 1818. Everyone came out with the ground, with the initial means. I paid for each of them taxes for five years ahead to the state treasury. I do not consider myself a liberal or a liberator. I am more profitable. These people work better. I make money from mowing, grinding forests and other things for my former peasants. I have already covered all my expenses and got a profit from all this. And I do not go out on the square with crazy statements or protests against the Emperor, or even more, against the Empire!
Since you cannot prove that this is a political matter, we will judge you as rebels and traitors of the Fatherland, like Yemelka Pugachev. Everyone on the cameras! At one stage with the criminals go, shit!”