1
Goriantchikoff became himself a soldier in Siberia, when he had finished his term of imprisonment.
2
An allusion to the two rows of soldiers, armed with green rods, between which convicts condemned to corporal punishment had and still have to pass. But this punishment now exists only for convicts deprived of all their civil rights. This subject will be returned to further on.
3
Men condemned to hard labour, and exiles generally,
1
Goriantchikoff became himself a soldier in Siberia, when he had finished his term of imprisonment.
2
An allusion to the two rows of soldiers, armed with green rods, between which convicts condemned to corporal punishment had and still have to pass. But this punishment now exists only for convicts deprived of all their civil rights. This subject will be returned to further on.
3
Men condemned to hard labour, and exiles generally, are so called by the Russian peasantry.