File:Side-lights on Siberia (1898), page 221, Convict chained to wheelbarrow, resting.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: Convict chained to tcheelbarrow, resting. convict who has been branded eight times with the lettersSK. The practice of chaining refractory life - sentencedconvicts to wheelbarrows for months at a time is no longercarried on in continental Siberia, although Mr De Windtfound it lingering in Sakhalin as late as 1894. We next went to the extreme west end of the building,where the indoor labour is carried on. Here the prisonstands very close to the courtyard wall, on the other sideof which is a road that leads to the Peresilni prison and 222 ALEXANDROVSKY CENTRAL. hospital upon the other side of the valley. Across theroad is a cabbage - garden, where great quantities of thestaple vegetable in shtchi are grown. The top storey ofthe building was laid out in a broad corridor, off whichopened four Ivmrras. In one of these several men wereat work on ordinary prison boots and shoes, while a fewwere executing private orders for articles of a superiormake. The excellence of the work in each case c
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