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A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.
It was known as the vast prison without a roof. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Here are the vividly told stories of petty criminals and mass murderers, bookish radicals and violent terrorists, fugitives and bounty hunters, and the innocent women and children who followed their husbands and fathers into exile.
Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals but also as a colony. Just as exile would purge Russia of its villains so too would it purge villains of their vices. In theory, Russias most unruly criminals would be transformed into hardy frontiersmen and settlers. But in reality, the system peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population. Even the aim of securing law and order in the rest of the Empire met with disaster: Expecting Siberia also to provide the ultimate quarantine against rebellion, the tsars condemned generations of republicans, nationalists and socialists to oblivion thousands of kilometers from Moscow. Over the nineteenth century, however, these political exiles transformed Siberias mines, settlements and penal forts into a virtual laboratory of revolution. Exile became the defining experience for the men and women who would one day rule the Soviet Union.
Unearthing a treasure trove of new archival evidence, this masterly and original work tells the epic story of Russias struggle to govern its prison continent and Siberias own decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world. In The House of the Dead, Daniel Beer brings to light a dark and gripping reality of mythic proportions.
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2016 by Daniel Beer
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2016.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Beer, Daniel, author.
Title: The house of the dead : Siberian exile under the tsars / Daniel Beer.
Description: First United States edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. |
This is a Borzoi book
Identifiers: LCCN 2016009610 (print) | LCCN 2016019798 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780307958907 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780307958914 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Exile (Punishment)RussiaHistory. | Exile
(Punishment)Russia (Federation)SiberiaHistory. | ExilesRussia
(Federation)SiberiaHistory. | Political prisonersRussia
(Federation)SiberiaHistory. | Penal coloniesRussia
(Federation)SiberiaHistory. | Convict laborRussia
(Federation)SiberiaHistory. | RevolutionariesRussia
(Federation)SiberiaHistory. | Siberia (Russia)History19th century.
| Siberia (Russia)History20th century. | RussiaSocial conditions18011917.
Classification: LCC HV9712 .B44 2016 (print) | LCC HV9712 (ebook) |
DDC 364.6dc23
Ebook ISBN9780307958914
Cover image: Ruins of a Stalinist prison camp in the marble canyon in the Kodar mountains in Siberia. akg-images.
Cover design by Oliver Munday
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The Last of the Exiles, 1900, by Frederic de Haenen (Copyright Look and Learn Illustrated Papers Collection/Bridgeman Images)
The Vladimirka, 1892, by Isaak Ilyich Levitan (Copyright State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/Bridgeman Images)
Farewell to Europe, 1894, by Aleksander Sochaczewski (Copyright The Warsaw Museum)
Sick Prisoners, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 1 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Russian Civilisation, from Judy (London, England), Wednesday 3 March 1880, p. 100.
Family Kmera in the Tomsk Forwarding prison, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 1 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Roll Call, from Lev Deutsch, 16 Years in Siberia (1905) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
The Siberian Boundary Post, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 1 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Russian Convict Prisoners in Siberia by Julius Mandes Price, an illustration for the Illustrated London News, 6 June 1891 (Copyright Look and Learn Illustrated Papers Collection/Bridgeman Images)
The Unexpected Return, 1884, by Ilya Efimovich Repin (Copyright Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of Sergei Volkonsky by Vasily Tropinin (Copyright Collection of the State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of Maria Volkonskaya (Copyright Central Pushkin Museum/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of Mikhail Lunin (Private collection of art critic Ilya Zilbershtein/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Konstantin Trutovsky (Copyright AKG Images/Sputnik)
Life Is Everywhere, 1888, by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (Copyright Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/Sputnik/Bridgeman Images)
A Break for Liberty, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 1 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Convict in Siberia (Copyright The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images)
The Irtysh Prison-Barge, from Harry de Windt, Siberia As It Is (1891) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Group of Convicts on the Yaroslavl, from Harry de Windt, The New Siberia (1896) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Elderly Prisoners in Kara, an illustration for The Graphic, 13 August 1898 (Copyright Look and Learn Illustrated Papers Collection/Bridgeman Images)
Aged Ordinary Prisoners at Kara, from Lev Deutsch, 16 Years in Siberia (1905) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Aged Ordinary Prisoners at Kara, from Lev Deutsch, 16 Years in Siberia (1905) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Aged Ordinary Prisoners at Kara, from Lev Deutsch, 16 Years in Siberia (1905) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
The Convict Prison, Tobolsk, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 2 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Prisoners Marching Through the Streets of Odessa, from Lev Deutsch, 16 Years in Siberia (1905) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Jarosaw Dabrowski (Copyright akg-images/Interfoto)
A political exile in Siberia (Copyright The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images)
Yelizaveta Kovalskaya, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 2 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Convict Branded S. K. A., from James Young Simpson, Sidelights on Siberia: Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System (1898) (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
Brodygs or Runaway Convicts, from George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System (1891), Vol. 1 (Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
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