. Siberia and the exile system. ould not leave him for al-most a month. He had borne the extraordinary hard-ships and privations of our eight-thousand-mile ridethrough Siberia with heroic fortitude and without a singlemurmur of complaint; but his strength had given way atlast, chiefly as the result of nervous excitement and pro-longed insomnia. He recovered slowly, but on the 13th ofApril he was strong enough to sail for the United States,and on the 16th I took out a new passport and returnedwith my wife to St. Petersburg. I spent four months inmaking the acquaintance of Russian liberals, revo
. Siberia and the exile system. ould not leave him for al-most a month. He had borne the extraordinary hard-ships and privations of our eight-thousand-mile ridethrough Siberia with heroic fortitude and without a singlemurmur of complaint; but his strength had given way atlast, chiefly as the result of nervous excitement and pro-longed insomnia. He recovered slowly, but on the 13th ofApril he was strong enough to sail for the United States,and on the 16th I took out a new passport and returnedwith my wife to St. Petersburg. I spent four months inmaking the acquaintance of Russian liberals, revolution-ists, and officials in St. Petersburg, Tver, Moscow, NizhniNovgorod, and Kazan; visited the friends and acquain-tances of many of the political exiles whom I had met inSiberia and delivered the letters that I had for them; OUK LAST DAYS IN SIBERIA 429 called upon Mr. Vlangalli, assistant Minister of ForeignAffairs, General Orzhefski, the chief of gendarmes, and Wrasskoy, the chief of the prison administration;. yermIks monument, tob6lsk. (SEE P. 422.) inspected two of the large St. Petersburg prisons—the Li-tofski Zamok, and the House of Preliminary Detention —completed my investigation, so far as it seemed possible todo so, and finally returned to New York in August, 1886,after an absence of about sixteen months. CHAPTER XIII THE CHARACTER OF POLITICAL EXILES. TO the student of modern Russian history few questionsare more important, and none, perhaps, is more in-teresting, than the question suggested by the title of thischapter—what is the character of the men and womenwho have been exiled to Siberia for offenses comprehen-sively but vaguely known in Russia as political ? Areall of these people alike in their dispositions, their aims,and their methods, or do they differ among themselves inthese respects? Are they reasonable, patriotic, liberty-loving citizens, actuated by disinterested motives and pro-voked into violence only by intolerable oppression a
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