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Identifier: siberiaexilesyst02kennuoft (find matches)
Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Publisher: new York : Century
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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A RELKJIOUS SERVICE AT AN OROZHANNI ENCAMPMENT. tainly commit suicide if she can; but the mere fact thatshe dies by her own hand does not relieve you from moralaccountability for her death. Since the tragedy of 1889 communication with the polit-ical convicts at Kara has become more difficult, and all thatI know of their life is that it has changed again for the worse.The order issued by the prison administration on the 1st ofMarch, 1888, has been carried into execution, and no dis-II 18 274 SIBERIA
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PEASANTS THRESHING GRAIN ON THE ICE. tinction is now made between politicals and common crim-inals. Many of the former—but how many I do not know—have been transferred from Kara to the famous anddreaded mine of Akatui, in the Nerchinsk district, where THE HISTORY OF THE KARA POLITICAL PRISON 275 they live and work with ordinary felons of the hard-laborclass. This is a return to the method of treating polit-icals that was practised more than forty years ago, whenthe gifted Russian novelist Dostoyefski was sent to Si-beria in chains, and worked and was flogged with commoncriminals in .the convict prison of Omsk. Most intelligentRussian officials are now ashamed of that episode in the his-tory of their literature and their Government. The time,I hope, is not far distant when they will be even moreashamed of flogging women, chaining school-teachers towheelbarrows, and subjecting political convicts generally totreatment from which they gladly escape by suicide. On the 12th of November

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Siberia__Russia_____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:new_York___Century
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  • bookleafnumber:289
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