1. Passed through Tobolsk prison

    · Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast, Russia

    Passed through Tobolsk prison
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    En route to hard labor in Omsk, Dostoyevsky reached the Tobolsk prison way station, where Decembrists’ wives supplied him with food, clothing, and a New Testament. Date is the New Style date paired with 9 January Old Style in the source; exact surviving prison structure is uncertain.

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