concept
Free settlement (na poselenii)
free settlement
also: поселение, на поселении, free-settler
After completing or in lieu of a katorga term, exiles were commonly settled as free colonists in Siberia, formally registered with a local peasant community and in principle entitled to a land allotment -- the legal machinery underlying the tramp's fantasy of a homestead, livestock, and family.
Reading notes
- Dreams §39 на поселении... к обществу припишусь
After completing (or in lieu of) a katorga term, exiles were commonly settled as free colonists (na poselenii) in Siberia, formally registered ("attached," pripisan) to a local peasant community (obshchestvo) and in principle entitled to an allotment of land -- the legal machinery underlying the tramp's entire fantasy of a homestead, livestock, and family.