Siberia and the exile system . r of political offenders is much smaller than it isgenerally supposed to be. From the annual reports ofColonel Vinokiirof, inspector of exile transportation forWestern Siberia, it appears that the number of politicalsbanished by administrative process from 1879 to 1884 is asfollows: 1879 145 1880 112 1881 108 1882 88 1883 156 1884 140 6 years 749 This is at an average rate of 125 per annum. If twenty-five more per annum be added for politicals sent to Siberiaas hard-labor convicts and penal colonists, and not includedin the above table, the whole number deported
Siberia and the exile system . r of political offenders is much smaller than it isgenerally supposed to be. From the annual reports ofColonel Vinokiirof, inspector of exile transportation forWestern Siberia, it appears that the number of politicalsbanished by administrative process from 1879 to 1884 is asfollows: 1879 145 1880 112 1881 108 1882 88 1883 156 1884 140 6 years 749 This is at an average rate of 125 per annum. If twenty-five more per annum be added for politicals sent to Siberiaas hard-labor convicts and penal colonists, and not includedin the above table, the whole number deported will make alittle less than one per cent, of the total number of exiles;which is probably an approximation to the truth. This6 82 SIBERIA estimate, however, does not include Polish insurgents, andit maj^ not liold good for years anterior to 1879. First andlast, about 100,000 Poles have been banished, and first andlast, a great many thousands of political conspirators. Myestimate relates onlv to the vears between 1879 and TUE FORWARDING PRISON. As a general rule, exile to Siberia, under the severersentences and for felony, involves first, deprivation of allcivil rights; second, forfeiture of all property, which, uponthe conviction of the criminal, descends to his heirs as ifhe were dead; and third, severance of all family relations,unless the criminals family voluntarily accompanies himto his place of exile. If a prisoners wife and children THE TIUMEN FORWARDING PRISON 83 wish to go with him, they are allowed to do so, and arefurnished by the Government with transportation; but ifnot, the authority of the criminal over his family ceaseswith his exile, and his wife is at liberty to marry againprecisely as if he were dead. Exiles of all classes are now brought from Kazan to Tin-men either in convict railway trains or in convict route is precisely the same one that we followed, viz.,down the Volga and up the Kama by steamer to Perm,and thence across the mo
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