concept
Administrative exile to Siberia
Siberian exile
also: ссылка в Восточную Сибирь, exile
Administrative exile to Siberia, typically paired with a fixed number of lashes, was the standard sentence for a person who could not or would not be identified -- markedly lighter than katorga, and the entire logic behind a fugitive's choice to conceal his real name.
Reading notes
- From the Notebook of Ivan Ivanych (Thoughts and Notes) §31 places not so remote
Renders места не столь отдаленные, the legal euphemism for the lesser grade of Siberian administrative exile, as distinct from the harsher места отдаленные ("places quite so remote") reserved for graver sentences.
- Dreams §25 в Восточную Сибирь присудят и 30 не то 40 плетей
Administrative exile to Eastern Siberia (as opposed to katorga, penal servitude) combined with a fixed number of lashes was the standard sentence for a person who could not or would not be identified -- lighter than being returned to hard labor under one's true name, which is the entire logic of the tramp's concealment.
- Whining (A Letter from Far Away) §3 was living in exile
Administrative exile (ssylka) to Siberia was the standard sentence for this class of offense -- lighter than katorga (penal servitude) but still a formal loss of residence rights, requiring the exile to live and be registered in an assigned Siberian locality, which is the narrator's situation throughout the letter.
- Whining (A Letter from Far Away) §6 stood trial, and landed in Siberia
The narrator's summary of his own biography -- finishing his studies, keeping house, standing trial, and landing in Siberia -- compresses the standard arc from respectable bookkeeper to exiled convict into a single bitterly ironic sentence about his own "gifted nature."
Mentioned in 36 works (219 mentions)
Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov")
Another Case
To N. A. Leikin, 1883. Moscow.
The Plain Truth
For the Wedding Season
To N. A. Leikin, 30 September 1885. Moscow.
Agafya
Dreams
On the Road
Whining (A Letter from Far Away)
A First-Class Passenger
To N. A. Leikin, 27 May 1886. Babkino.
Trouble
To the Chekhovs, 7 April 1887. Taganrog.
To the Chekhovs, 19 April 1887. Taganrog.
Peasant Women
The Wood Demon
To A. S. Suvorin, 5 March 1889. Moscow.
From Siberia
To A. S. Suvorin, 9 March 1890. Moscow.
To N. A. Leikin, 31 March 1890. Moscow.
To the Chekhovs, 17 May 1890. Krasnyy Yar -- Tomsk.
To the Chekhovs, 28 May 1890. Krasnoyarsk.
To the Chekhovs, 26 June 1890. Ot Pokrovskoy do Blagoveshchenska.
To A. S. Suvorin, 27 June 1890. Blagoveshchensk.
To I. L. Leontyev, 26 December 1890. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 18 November 1891. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 13 May 1891. Aleksin.
To A. S. Suvorin, 20 May 1891. Bogimovo.
To Avgustin Vrzal, 14 August 1891. Bogimovo.
Notebooks. Diaries
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Sakhalin Island
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