...to acquire a substantial position. Thfir whole outward condition is from the first favorable; АЗ soon as they arrive in Siberia their past life not...completely at an end; their crime is forgotten ; no ono dares to remind them of it, or to term them convicts; both in the public official reports and in...

...past life not onlv lies like a dream behind them, hut is legally and politically completely at вп end; their crime is forgotten; no one dares to remind...public official reports and in conversation they are only called 'the unfortunate.' They are perfectly free people, serfdom beinp forbidden by the law....

...are there so many vigorous old people. The peasants, descended from the early convicts, are all very well off, some of them very rich ; they only require...public official reports and in conversation they are only termed " the unfortunate."'—Haxthausen, 'The Russian Empire.' Prettily situated on the Sparrow...