List of Post Stations (with Distances, Telegraph Stations, and Rivers), between Irkoutsk and Tomsk, Siberia.
(G.) Good Post-house, (B.) Bad Post-house, (F.) Uninhabitable.
(G.) Good Post-house, (B.) Bad Post-house, (F.) Uninhabitable.
(G.) Good Post-house, (B.) Bad Post-house, (F.) Uninhabitable.
Price of posting: Horses three kopeks, a verst each fromIrkoutsktoBogotolsk. From Bogotolsk to Tomsk, 1½ kopeks a verst.
12. Extract from theVolga Messenger, of October 16th, 1887:——“The entire tract of country between Tomsk and Irkoutsk is infested with runaway convicts, so that travelling in this region, especially on dark autumn nights, is extremely dangerous. Lately a whole family was murdered at the distance of a few versts from Irkoutsk, and we hear of such cases frequently enough. So bad is the state of the roads in this respect, that the Government is about to put a stop to it by abolishing exile to Siberia, and a proposal to this effect is now under the consideration of the Imperial Council.”
12. Extract from theVolga Messenger, of October 16th, 1887:——
“The entire tract of country between Tomsk and Irkoutsk is infested with runaway convicts, so that travelling in this region, especially on dark autumn nights, is extremely dangerous. Lately a whole family was murdered at the distance of a few versts from Irkoutsk, and we hear of such cases frequently enough. So bad is the state of the roads in this respect, that the Government is about to put a stop to it by abolishing exile to Siberia, and a proposal to this effect is now under the consideration of the Imperial Council.”
13. A kind of spruce beer.
13. A kind of spruce beer.
14. Such a one is the young and beautiful Countess Ignatieff, wife of the Governor of Irkoutsk, who, it would seem, is as much at home in the frozen forests of Eastern Siberia as in the salons of Paris or Petersburg. One of her latest exploits was to accompany the general to Yakoutsk——a voyage of three months from Irkoutsk——the greater part of which had to be accomplished in small birch-bark canoes.
14. Such a one is the young and beautiful Countess Ignatieff, wife of the Governor of Irkoutsk, who, it would seem, is as much at home in the frozen forests of Eastern Siberia as in the salons of Paris or Petersburg. One of her latest exploits was to accompany the general to Yakoutsk——a voyage of three months from Irkoutsk——the greater part of which had to be accomplished in small birch-bark canoes.
15. Are there any horses?
15. Are there any horses?