The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars | 
pickA fascinating book on the system of Siberian exile in the time of the Tsar‘s, before the creation of the gulag system with which most people are familiar. From the turn of the 19th century when the concept of penal exile was used as a method to grow and populate the great swathes of land claimed by the empire to the early 20th century, when Siberia had turned into a hot bed of revolutionary activity.
1 #audiobook 😂 2 My glasses‘ frames 👓 3 Russian history, non-fiction 🇷🇺 4 Maybe a year or two ago?!? 🥔 5 I‘ve done it precisely once and had a good time 🎼 #HumpDayPost @MinDea
Cozy blanket and a 5am fire in stark contrast to the content of this brutal and fascinating book about The gulags under Romanov rule.
Anyone else have that Pulp song stuck in their heads #insomnia
TFW the opening act isn‘t working for you, but you‘ve got an engrossing work of non-fiction on your Kindle app
When you‘re at the rink and reading about Dostoyevsky in Siberia
This quote is about the Decembrists‘ exile and reminds me that much of Russian history had an unintentionally dark comedy vibe. See also: The Death of Stalin
#Birthdayhaul, part 1. I may have made a most wanted Excel spreadsheet to guide the shoppers. #bookwormproblems
Having read the experiences of several authors who were sent to count trees, I could not turn up this history of the Siberian penal work camps in the 19th century
pickJust absolutely brutal. The amount of times I cringed or recoiled reached points I haven't seen since Symphony For The City Of The Dead.
#TBRtemptation post! Wow! This book sounds amazing! This is a cultural history of Siberia from the early 19th Century through the Russian Revolution. It was a place where the tsars banished criminals, as we all know; but it became something much more. An experiment in natural resource extraction; an experiment in revolutionary politics; an experiment in operating, in effect, a massive penal colony. Intriguing. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
