They led a revolt in Saint Petersburg in December 1825, when about 3,000 officers and soldiers refused to swear allegiance to the new Tsar Nicholas I.

The cast includes Leonid Bichevin, Maksim Matveyev, Pavel Priluchny, Ivan Yankovsky, Anton Shagin, Ivan Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Igor Petrenko, Sergey Peregudov, Vitali Kishchenko, Aleksei Guskov, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Sergey Koltakov, Vladislav Vetrov and Artyom Tkachenko.

Union of Salvation was released in the Russian Federation by 20th Century Fox CIS (through Buena Vista International) on December 26, 2019, in 2D, Atmos.

[4][5] In 1808, the Emperor of France, Napoleon, visits a boarding house in Paris, and asks to be shown the most talented student there.

Podpolkovnik Muravyov-Apostol, along with Polkovnik Pestel, leaves Saint Petersburg for the 29th Chernigov Infantry Regiment in the Kiev Governorate.

Some of the officers spend a year preparing to assassinate the Tsar during his review of the troops, and subsequently march on St. Petersburg.

Discussing the path of reform, the nobles consider whether they prefer Pavel Pestel's republican program of Russkaya Pravda ('Russian Truth"), or Nikita Muravyov's constitutional project, where Russia will remain a monarchy.

Realizing that the rebels would not give up, Nicholas I orders Aleksei Orlov's loyalist Horse Guards to attack and disperse them.

In January 1826 the Chernigov Regiment is marching in formation along the Rzhevsky road when suddenly they are surprised by an unexpected artillery barrage.

While waiting on death row Sergei Muravyov-Apostol imagines an alternate version of the meeting with Alexander I where this time the Russian Tsar agrees to drink champagne with his guards.

Most of the male performers with speaking parts in the cast played characters in the military, in particular the Imperial Russian Army.

[7] The film Union of Salvation is a project of the Direktsiya kino (the main partner of which is state-funded Channel One of Russian television) and the company 20th Century Fox CIS.

[9] Principal photography began in summer 2018 and took place the selo of Dmitriyevka, Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Oblast, playing the role of the village of Vasilkova, where the rebel regiment was seized.

Now in the village a museum - a film company "Cinema Directorate Studio" donated the buildings of the local administration.

During the filming of the climax, the Senate square in Saint Petersburg was freezing - the air temperature dropped to -24 °C, which felt like -30 °C due to high humidity, so rosy cheeks and reddened noses are not make-up.

Since the film takes place at the beginning of the 19th century, when sideburns and mustaches were in fashion, make-up artists had to make hundreds of different designs so that each actor got a set of the right color.

Dmitry's original author's compositions sound in the film, including the title theme of the Union of Salvation.

The film was produced by Hollywood Records, with Dmitriy Emelyanov processing at the request of producer, Konstantin Ernst, other famous tunes in Russia such as Mumiy Troll's "Vladivostok 2000", Nautilus Pompilius's "Water Walks", Med Dog's "Fly Away", All are played in a film accompanied by symphony.

Aleksey Kozin, musical producer of the film, said, "Cooperation with Dmitriy Emelyanov is always a very interesting and enjoyable process.

The film was released in the Russian Federation by 20th Century Fox CIS (through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) on December 26, 2019.

The preparations for the production of a TV series began in August 2020, when its producers submitted a request for support to the Russian Ministry of Culture.

On January 24, 2021, filming began for the TV series named Union of Salvation: Time of Fury (Союз Спасения.

The series includes actor Kirill Kuznetsov, who plays the Chernigov Battalion soldier Mikhail Shchfilo, Anton Momot as staff officer Dmitry Shchepin-Rostovsky, Andrei Martinov as Apollyt Moraviov-Apostol, Tikhon Zhiznevsky, with most of the film's actors: Ivan Yankovsky, who returns to play Mikhail Stuhzhev-Ryumin, Anton Shagin, Maxim Matveyev, Sergei Agaponov, Pavel Vorozhzov, Leonid Bitchevin, Alexei Goskov, Ivan Kolesnikov, Alex Pavel Prilucniy and Igor Petrenko.

Film critic Egor Moskvitin in an interview with Kommersant FM radio station noted:[22] On the one hand, you can really perceive this movie as complementary to young people, idealists who are ready to give their lives for the fatherland.

The rush of the Decembrists was more idealistic than sensible.In turn, the critic of the network publication "Kanobu.Ru" Angelina Gura said:[23] There are many characters and they are disclosed exactly as much as a two-hour film allows about one of the most famous events of the past.

Rudnik, head of the Department of History of St. Petersburg Mining University, the film contains a number of distortions of historical facts (for example, the dialogue between Nicholas I and S.

[24] Union of Salvation received seven awards in Russia: for best supporting actor (Alexander Domogarov), cinematography, visual effects, costumes, makeup, sound engineer and production designer.