Siberia and the exile system . laint, in behalf of theother prisoners, of a lump of filth foundin their soup. His second punishmentwas for saving a fellow-prisoner fromdrowning when the major in commandof the OHtroy had ordered him not to doso. The flogging in each ease was so brutally severe that the sufferer had tobe taken to the hospital, and after thesecond execution, Rozhnofski says,the convicts generally regarded Dos-toy^fski as dead. When he reappearedamong them, after lying six weeks inthe hospital, they gave him the nick-name pokoinik [the deceased]. For fur-ther particulars of Dostoy
Siberia and the exile system . laint, in behalf of theother prisoners, of a lump of filth foundin their soup. His second punishmentwas for saving a fellow-prisoner fromdrowning when the major in commandof the OHtroy had ordered him not to doso. The flogging in each ease was so brutally severe that the sufferer had tobe taken to the hospital, and after thesecond execution, Rozhnofski says,the convicts generally regarded Dos-toy^fski as dead. When he reappearedamong them, after lying six weeks inthe hospital, they gave him the nick-name pokoinik [the deceased]. For fur-ther particulars of Dostoyefskis trial,condemnation, and life in penal servi-tude see Atrehestvenia Zapiski [Annalsof the Fatherland], Feb. 1881, andMarch, 1882. 144 SIBERIA Xotes from a House of the Dead. Tliere was one otherbuililiiig ill Omsk that we desired to inspoet, namely, theprison that had taken the place of the old ostrofj; but wewere treated with such contemptuous diseouitesy by thegovernor of the territory when we called upon him and asked. A KIKGUIS ENCAMPMENT. permission to examine it, that we could only retire with-out even having taken seats in his High Excellencys Wednesday, July 8th, having fully recovered fromthe fatigue of our journey from Tinmen, we left Omsk withthree post horses and a Cossack driver for road between the two cities runs everywhere alongthe right bank of the Irtish through a line of log villageswhich do not differ essentially in appearance from thosenorth of Omsk, but which are inhabited almost exclusivelyby Cossacks. Whenever the Russian Government desires THE GREAT KIRGHIS STEPPE 145 to strengthen a weak frontier line so as to prevent the in-cursions of hostile or predatory natives, it forcibly colonizesalong that line a few himdied or a few thousand families ofarmed Cossacks. During the last century it formed in thisway the armed line of the Terek, to protect southeasternRussia from the raids of the Caucasian mountaineers, anda simila
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