Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky (26 November [8 December] 1802, St. Petersburg — 15 [27] August 1839, Fort Lazarevsky, now the Lazarevskoye district of Sochi) was a Russian poet and Decembrist. Educated at home, he served as a cornet in the Life Guards Horse Regiment. In the winter of 1824–25 he was admitted to the Northern Society of the Decembrists, joining its radical wing. He took part in the uprising on Senate Square on 14 December 1825 and, after its defeat, was confined in the Peter and Paul Fortress. From 1827 to 1837 he endured hard labor and exile in Siberia; then, by order of the tsar, he was sent as a private to the army in the field in the Caucasus — the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment — where he grew close to Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Ogaryov. He had the reputation of an intelligent, cultivated, and noble man; some went so far as to call him a "Christ-like" figure. He died in 1839 of malarial fever.