Tawayen Decembrist ya faru ne a kasar Rasha a ranar 26 ga Disamba 1825, a lokacin da ake tsaka da mulki bayan mutuwar kwatsam na Sarkin sarakuna Alexander I. magajin Alexander, Konstantin, ya ki amincewa da magajin a asirce, wanda kotun ba ta sani ba, kuma kanensa Nicholas ya yanke shawarar karbar mulki. kamar yadda Sarkin sarakuna Nicholas I, yana jiran tabbatarwa na yau da kullun.Yayin da wasu daga cikin sojojin suka lashi takobin yin biyayya ga Nicholas, wata runduna ta kusan dakaru 3,000 sun yi yunkurin yin juyin mulkin soji domin goyon bayan Konstantin.'Yan tawayen, duk da cewa rashin jituwar da ke tsakanin shugabanninsu ta yi rauni, sun yi taho-mu-gama da masu biyayya a wajen ginin majalisar dattijai a gaban dimbin jama'a.A cikin rudani, an kashe wakilin Sarkin sarakuna Mikhail Miloradovich.Daga karshe dai masu biyayya sun bude wuta da manyan bindigogi, lamarin da ya wargaza 'yan tawayen.An yanke wa mutane da yawa hukuncin rataya, kurkuku, ko kuma gudun hijira zuwa Siberiya.An san maƙarƙashiyar da sunan Decembrist.