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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wrneisJichik) in thesouth of Russia, and was the sister of Basil Vorontsof, awell-known Russian political economist.1 She had a liberaleducation, and was characterized as a girl by tenacity ofpurpose, generous feeling, and a sensitive nervous organi-zation. Her brothers interest in political economy led herat a comparatively early age to study the problems pre-sented by Russian life, and even before her marriage shemade an attempt, by opening a peasant school, to do some-thing to improve the condition of the great ignorant massof the Russian common people. At the age of twenty-twoor twenty-three she married a teacher in one of the gym-nasia or high schools of Kiev named Kavalefski—a man ofculture and refinement, who at one time had been a mem- 1 Mr. Vorontsof is the author of political economy in the Russian maga-The Destiny of Capital in Russia, zines European Messenger, Annals ofand of a large number of articles upon the Fatherland, and Russian Thought. STATE CRIMINALS AT KARA 213
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MADAM KAVALEFSKAYA. ber of the city council of Odessa, and who was generally-respected and esteemed. They lived together happily andhad one child—a little girl whom they named Hallie. I will not now attempt to trace the series of steps bywhich Madam Kavalefskaya passed from the position of a 214 SIBERIA moderate liberal to the position of a revolutionist. Aftertrying, again and again, by peaceful and legal methods, toremedy some of the evils that she saw about her, and afterbeing opposed and thwarted at every step by the censor-ship of the press, the police, and the Russian bureaucraticsystem, she became satisfied that nothing could be donewithout a change in the existing form of government; andshe therefore joined one of the secret revolutionary circles,in Kiev. This circle was surprised and captured by thepolice in February, 1879, and Madam Kavalefski wascondemned as a revolutionist to thirteen years and fourmonths of penal servitude, with exile to Siberia for life anddeprivation

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