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Exile in Siberia and Dostoevsky

Sarah Missett. Exile in Siberia and Dostoevsky. Siberia. 77% of Russia’s Territory 25% of population Most common climate: continental subarctic Rich in minerals. Exile in Siberia. 19 th Century: 1.2 million exiled Prisoners from Western Russia and Poland

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Exile in Siberia and Dostoevsky

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  1. Sarah Missett Exile in Siberia and Dostoevsky

  2. Siberia • 77% of Russia’s Territory • 25% of population • Most common climate: continental subarctic • Rich in minerals

  3. Exile in Siberia • 19th Century: 1.2 million exiled • Prisoners from Western Russia and Poland • Petty criminals to political opposition • Travel on foot- 3 years • High mortality rate

  4. Exile in Siberia Cont. • Hard labor: mined gold, silver, lead, salt, or worked on Trans-Siberian Railway • “In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... We were packed like herrings in a barrel...”-Dostoevsky

  5. Dostoevsky & Exile • mock execution1849 • Sentence commuted to 4 years hard labor in Siberia • Sent to prison camp in Omsk • “shut up in a coffin” • Released to Siberian Regiment in 1854 & served 5 years

  6. Dostoevsky after Exile • Embraced Rustic Russia • More religious • Rejected: Western-European Philosophy, Nihilism, Socialism, • Supported conservatism & Pochvyennichyestvomovement

  7. Dostoevsky’s Work After Exile • Suffering, despair, humility, submission • House of the Dead • No Western Style • Works: dark, complex, brooding/tortured characters • Existential Themes

  8. Crime and Punishment • Siberia :pg.296, 391, 407, 416, 420 • “…a criminal charge, involving an element of fantastic and homicidal brutality for which he might well have been sentenced to Siberia...”(296) • Andrey Semyonovitch (Lebeziatnikov) -Utopia is unrealistic • Claustrophobia “The heat in the streets was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle, and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him…”(2) • Sonia-religious -story of Lazarus “suffer and expiate your sin by it, that’s what you must do”(416)

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