Note 4 — Chapter XXXI · SIBERIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS.

Since this chapter has been in type my impressions have been strikingly confirmed by an official, high in the prison administration, who in reply to my written inquiries as to the number of political prisoners sent to Siberia during the last few years, replies that the deportation of political offenders came under the prison administration only in 1880, but that for the present year, 1881, the total number of political offenders of all kinds, sent to Siberia, is 72; which number, moreover, includes nearly 40 condemned to the mines during the years 1875–6–9–80, but who have been detained meanwhile in the central prisons of the Kharkof district. The year, therefore (up to November), of the Emperor’s assassination has sent about 30 persons into exile.