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had been used as places of confinement for political offenders, and even for cultivated women. Madam Róssikova, he said, had languished in one of those dungeons until the prison surgeon had pronounced her dying. He invited me
HOUSE OF DECEMBRIST EXILES.
THE POLITICAL EXILES' CARPENTER-SHOP, CHÍTA.
to call upon him, and said that if I was interested in prisons and the exile system he thought he could furnish me with some material. I am not at liberty to name this officer, nor to indicate the position that he held; but I can say, with-
