. Siberia and the exile system. FRONT VIEW,. SIDE ALEXANDR6FSKI CENTRAL PRISON. to the post-station, and, having warmed ourselves withthree or four tumblers of hot tea, went to bed on the floor,as usual. Saturday morning we called upon the prison warden, , who had already received notice of our comingfrom the authorities in Irkutsk, and asked permission to gothrough the institution of which he was in command. , a pleasant, intelligent, cultivated officer, thirty-five 346 SIBEEIA or forty years of age, received us with the most cordial hos-pitality, insisted upon
. Siberia and the exile system. FRONT VIEW,. SIDE ALEXANDR6FSKI CENTRAL PRISON. to the post-station, and, having warmed ourselves withthree or four tumblers of hot tea, went to bed on the floor,as usual. Saturday morning we called upon the prison warden, , who had already received notice of our comingfrom the authorities in Irkutsk, and asked permission to gothrough the institution of which he was in command. , a pleasant, intelligent, cultivated officer, thirty-five 346 SIBEEIA or forty years of age, received us with the most cordial hos-pitality, insisted upon our taking a late breakfast with him,and after we had refreshed ourselves with tea, bread andbutter, and delicious cutlets served with gravy and delicatelybrowned potatoes, he went with us to the prison. The Alexandrofski central prison is a large, two-storybrick building with a tin roof, standing in a spacious in-closure formed by a high buttressed brick wall. It is some-what irregular in form, but its greatest length is about 300feet and
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