File:Side-lights on Siberia (1898), page 218, Palatch with plet.jpg
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Identifier: sidelightsonsibe00simp Title: Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Simpson, James Young, 1873-1934 Subjects: Prisons -- Soviet Union Exiles -- Russia (Federation) Siberia Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: prison in Siberia discipline or punishment for a crime hasto be enforced with the rozgi—a species of birch-rod—thenone of the prisoners is elected by lot to perform the service.The plet is not given in Eussia, and if a man about to gointo exile is in addition condemned in Eussia to punishment BRANDING. 219 with that instrument, he suffers at Tobolsk, shortly after hehas entered Siberia. The imlatcli at Alexanclrovsky hadmore than once asked to be relieved from his unenviableoffice, as it was a sinecure. The rozgi had not been giventhere for three years, far less the ^let. The latter is amodification of the famous hnut} which was abolished in1845, and although people still often speak of t\\Q plct as theIcnut, the former term is alone used in law. The implementhas a short stout handle, and the thick lash, after taperingfor some distance, divides into three tails. It is nevergiven for a first offence, but in such instances as that ofa recovered Irodyaga or of a murderer who repeats
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