Siberia and the exile system . or the best work upon that subject.^Mr. Chudnof ski impressed me as a man who, if he had beenborn in America, might have had a career of usefulness anddistinction, and might have been an honor to the state. 1 Sentence in the trial of the 193, The value of Mr, Chudnofskis book pp. 5, 11, and 16. An official copy of was greatly impaired by censorial mu- the document is in my possession. tilation, and the last two chapters 2The Province of Yeniseisk, a could not be printed at all; but even Statistical and Politico-Economical in its expurgated form it is acknow- Stud
Siberia and the exile system . or the best work upon that subject.^Mr. Chudnof ski impressed me as a man who, if he had beenborn in America, might have had a career of usefulness anddistinction, and might have been an honor to the state. 1 Sentence in the trial of the 193, The value of Mr, Chudnofskis book pp. 5, 11, and 16. An official copy of was greatly impaired by censorial mu- the document is in my possession. tilation, and the last two chapters 2The Province of Yeniseisk, a could not be printed at all; but even Statistical and Politico-Economical in its expurgated form it is acknow- Study, by S. Chudnofski, 195 pages, ledged to be one of the most important Press of the Siberian Gazette, Tomsk, works of the kind that Siberia has yet i885. produced. 324 SIBERIA He happened to be born in Russia, and was therefore pre-destined to imprisonment and exile. Among the most interesting of the newly arrived politicalexiles in Tomsk was Mr. Constantine Staninkovich, theeditor and proprietor of the Russian magazine DielOy. PBINCE KROp6tKIN. whose history I gave briefly in Chapter XI [Exile by Ad-ministrative Process, p. 243]. He was a close and accurateobserver of Russian social life, a talented novelist, a writerof successful dramas, and a man of great force, energy, andability. His wife, who had accompanied him to Siberia,spoke English fluently with the least perceptible accent, andseemed to me to be a woman of more than ordinary cultureand refinement. They had one grown daughter, a pretty,intelligent girl seventeen or eighteen years of age, as wellas two or three younger children, and the whole family madeupon us an extremely pleasant impression. Some of the THE LIFE OF POLITICAL EXILES 325 most delightful evenings that we had in Tomsk were spentin their cozy little parlor, where we sometimes sat untillong after midnight listening to duets sung by Miss Staniu-kovich and Prince Kropotkin; discussing Russian methodsof government and the exile system; or comparing our im-p
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