DULEMBA, KOHN, RECHNYEVSKY, LURI, MANKOVSKY “ 258 LURI, SOUHOMLIN, AND RECHNYEVSKY, IN PRISON “ 260 DRESS PORTRAITS: A. KORBA, E. KOVALSKAYA, N. SIGIDA, “ 266 M. KOVALEVSKAYA, N. SMIRNITSKAYA, S. BOGOMOLETZ GRAVEYARD OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AT KARA “ 290 THE PENAL SETTLEMENT, KARA “ 300 COTTAGE SHARED BY “POLITICALS” IN THE KARA PENAL “ 302 SETTLEMENT KARA PRISONERS AT WORK “ 308 FEMALE CRIMINALS AT KARA DRAWING WATER-CART “ 310 AGED ORDINARY PRISONERS AT KARA “ 314 THE COSSACK VILLAGE OF STRETYENSK “ 324 BLAGOVESTSHENSK “ 328 ON THE AMUR NEAR BLAGOVESTSHENSK—THE SCENE OF “ 336 THE MASSACRE SIXTEEN YEARS IN SIBERIA CHAPTER I JOURNEY TO GERMANY—IMPRISONMENT IN FREIBURG—EPISODES FROM THE PAST OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT In the beginning of March, 1884, I travelled from Zurich, through Basel, to Freiburg in Baden. The object of my journey was to smuggle over the frontier a quantity of Russian socialistic literature, printed in Switzerland, in order that it might then be distributed by secret channels throughout Russia, where of course it was prohibited. In Germany a special law against the Social-Democratic movement was then in force. The _Sozialdemokrat_ was published in Zurich, and had to be smuggled over the German frontier, where the watch was very keen, rendering most difficult the despatch to Russia of Russian, Polish, and other revolutionary literature printed in Switzerland. Before the enactment of the special law in August, 1878, the procedure had been simple. At that time the publications were sent by post to some town in Germany near the Russian border, and thence, by one way or another, despatched to Russia. Later, however, it became necessary to convey them as travellers’ luggage across the German frontier, in order to get them through the custom-house, after which they could be forwarded to some German town nearer the Russian border. It was on this transport business that I was engaged.