Convicts exiled to Siberia's outermost limits had to walk more than eight thousand kilometres - it took years. And the day they finally arrived was the day their sentences began.’
From 'The Sinner and The Saint Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment'.
Dostoevsky was sentenced to a number of years in exile in Siberia for being a member of the Petrashevsky Circle.
While in Siberia, Krivvtsov, a cruel commandant ordered the prisoners to sleep on their right side because he told them that was the aside that Jesus slept on and ‘everyone should follow the Lord’s example'.
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