. Siberia and the exile system. January8th, having sold ourold tdrantds and pur-chased with the pro-ceeds a comfortable2)cw6ska, or winter traveling-sleigh, like that shown in theillustration on this page, we sent to the post-station for atroika of horses and set out by way of the Alexandrofskicentral prison for the ice bridge across the Angara. The Alexandrofski central prison, which at the time ofour visit had the reputation of being one of the best as wellas one of the largest institutions of its kind in EasternSiberia, is situated on the right bank of the Angara Riverabout forty miles belo
. Siberia and the exile system. January8th, having sold ourold tdrantds and pur-chased with the pro-ceeds a comfortable2)cw6ska, or winter traveling-sleigh, like that shown in theillustration on this page, we sent to the post-station for atroika of horses and set out by way of the Alexandrofskicentral prison for the ice bridge across the Angara. The Alexandrofski central prison, which at the time ofour visit had the reputation of being one of the best as wellas one of the largest institutions of its kind in EasternSiberia, is situated on the right bank of the Angara Riverabout forty miles below Irkutsk, and was built and occu-pied for a time as a distillery. It was remodeled and turnedinto a prison in 1874, and since then has been used as aplace of confinement and of nominal hard labor for abouta thousand convicts. I was particularly anxious to see it,because Acting-governor Petrof in Irkutsk had described ittome as almost a model prison, and I had not thus farseen any prisons in Siberia to which such a description. SIBERIAN PAV6SKA OR TRAVELING-SLEIGH ADVENTURES IN EASTERN SIBERIA 345 would apply. After a pleasant and comfortable ride ofeight hours from Irkutsk we reached the prison settlementabout half-past nine oclock Friday night, drove at once
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