place
Tobolsk Province
Tobolsk
also: Тобольская губерния, Tobolskaya guberniya
A vast Siberian province and historic destination for penal exiles under the Russian Empire; Avdeyev is sentenced to exile for settlement there at the close of the story.
Reading notes
- Trouble §47 Tobolsk province
A vast Siberian province and the Russian Empire's standard destination for exiles sentenced to "settlement" (ssylka na zhitye) rather than penal servitude -- a serious but not the harshest available sentence, which is consistent with Avdeyev's own continued failure to grasp the gravity of his situation.