Siberia and the exile system . al for the Atechestceiiia Zapiski nicious in other Russian magazines under the 2 The word ostroy meant originallypen-name of Karonin, and a vohirae a stockaded entrenchment and wasof his collected stories was published in applied to the rude forts built by theMoscow in 1890. His field as a writer Cossacks as they marched eastwardis the Russian village and the every- into Siberia three centuries ago. Theday life of the Russian peasant, and he custom of confining criminals in thesehas shown in that field not only great forts finally gave to ostrog the
Siberia and the exile system . al for the Atechestceiiia Zapiski nicious in other Russian magazines under the 2 The word ostroy meant originallypen-name of Karonin, and a vohirae a stockaded entrenchment and wasof his collected stories was published in applied to the rude forts built by theMoscow in 1890. His field as a writer Cossacks as they marched eastwardis the Russian village and the every- into Siberia three centuries ago. Theday life of the Russian peasant, and he custom of confining criminals in thesehas shown in that field not only great forts finally gave to ostrog the meaningaccuracy of observation and faithful- of prison, and up to the presentness of portrayal, but a sympathetic century nearly all of the prisons incomprehension of all the sufferings that Siberia were known as common people are forced to endure THE GREAT KIRGHIS STEPPE 143 but I was told that fellow prisoners, he was twice floggedit had long before been torn down. I did not wonder that the Government should have. ^«;* THE EXILE SUBURB —OMSK. wished to tear down walls that had witnessed such scenesof misery and cruelty as those described in Dostoyefskis 1 A touching account of this part ofDostoyefskis life, by a convict namedRozhnofski who occupied the same cellwith him in the Omsk os<;ory,has recentlybeen published in the Tiflis newspaperKavkdz. Rozhnofski says that Dos-toyefski was flogged the first time formaking complaint, 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 f
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