File:Side-lights on Siberia (1898), page 258, Akatui.jpg

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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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in theirbeauty and solitude. On a levelled foundation by the banksof the little stream that tosses down the valley stood a pic-turesque church, simplicity itself, with its dark-brown beams,white painted windows, green roof and spire, while threeblack-and-white kids had lain down in the cool shelter of theporch. We had already passed an odd hut or two before we foundourselves between two rows of more substantial buildings.On the right in order came the house of the natcludnik,with the prison storehouses opposite; then a larger build-ing—the residence of the under officers—with the prisonbuildings vis-a-vis, enclosed by a square whitewashed wall.The internal arrangements of the prison buildings differedlittle from those at Algatchi, and again there was no traceof overcrowding. The only unusual feature about thekameras was that an ante-chamber opened off each, whichserved amongst other purposes that of a repository for khalatsand other clothing. Each man had his own little mattress,
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SLAVINSKI. 259 although here especially they are supposed to lie on thehard platforms only. In the largest corpus a respectablelibrary had been set up, of which the constituent volumesroamed all over the jail, being visible in several of thekameras. Across the corridor from it were two men in aroom by themselves, under sentence for life for having soldplans of fortifications to the Austrian Government. Oneof them was binding a copy of Dostoievskys Memories ofa Dead House, while the other spent his tinie in makingsmall portmanteaus. The lazaret, though set by itself in a corner, was withinthe same pale as the rest of the buildings. Infectious caseswere lodged under the same roof as the non-infectious, butin a different room. At the end of the passage, in a roomperhaps 12 feet long, 8 broad, and 12 high, lighted by asingle window with the grating inside, Slavinski, one ofthe few politicals in Siberia at present supposed to beworking in hard labour, was confined. Of medium height,with re

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