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Photo, Print, Drawing Mirskiĭ, Kuznet︠s︡ov, Shinkman. Мирский, Кузнецов, Шинкман.

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Title

  • Mirskiĭ, Kuznet︠s︡ov, Shinkman.

Other Title

  • Мирский, Кузнецов, Шинкман.

Translated Title

  • Mirsky, Kuznetsov, and Shinkman.

Summary

  • This photograph is from an album of 47 views of convicts and structures at the Akatuy Prison, one of the main centers where political prisoners were held in the Russian Empire during the late-tsarist period. The album belonged to Isaiah Aronovich Shinkman, a physician and member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, who was incarcerated at Akatuy from 1906 to 1911. The prison was located at the Akatuy silver mine in Nerchinsk okrug (district) in the Transbaikal Territory of Siberia. Thousands of political prisoners were exiled to Siberia from European Russia and from Poland, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia (all then part of the Russian Empire) following the repression of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Criminal labor convicts and political prisoners had long been sent to Nerchinsk to work in extracting lead-silver ores in the region's mines. The American explorer and journalist George Kennan (1845-1924) visited Akatuy in 1885, and wrote about his experience in his book Siberia and the Exile System (1891), a scathing critique of the system of prisons and prison camps in Russia. The album is held by the Irkutsk State University in Irkutsk and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. The photographs it contains offer glimpses into the day-to-day existence and activities of the political prisoners in Siberia in the years before World War I and the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , 1871-1924 , associated name.

Created / Published

  • Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga : [publisher not identified], [1906-1911]

Headings

  • -  katorzhane
  • -  odezhda
  • -  galstuk
  • -  babochka
  • -  boroda
  • -  usy
  • -  Convict labor
  • -  Criminals
  • -  Exiles
  • -  Political prisoners
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Prisoners
  • -  Revolutionaries
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Zabaykalsky Krai
  • -  Novyy Akatuy
  • -  каторжане
  • -  одежда
  • -  галстук
  • -  бабочка
  • -  борода
  • -  усы

Notes

  • -  Mirskiĭ, Lev Filippovich - rodilsi︠a︡ v 1858 g. v dvori︠a︡nskoĭ sem'e. V 1877 g. postupil v Mediko-khirurgicheskui︠u︡ akademii︠u︡. V 1878 g. arestovan po podozrenii︠u︡ v uchastii v revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnom dvizhenii, no 1879 g. osvobozhden na poruki. 13 marta 1879 g. po lichnoĭ init︠s︡iative streli︠a︡l v shefa zhandarmov Drentel'na. Arestovan 6 ii︠u︡li︠a︡ 1879 g. v Taganroge. Prigovoren k smertnoĭ kazni, zamenena bessrochnoĭ katorgoĭ. V 1895 g. vyshel na posel. V 1906 g. sudilsi︠a︡ karatel'noĭ ėkspedit︠s︡ieĭ Rennenkampfa. Prigovoren k smertnoĭ kazni, zamenena bessrochnoĭ katorgoĭ. Na poselenie vyshel po "bogodul'skoĭ komissii". Umer v Verkhneudinske v 1919 - 20 gg. Posle Fevral'skoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii vyi︠a︡snilos', chto Mirskiĭ vydal snoshenii︠a︡ Nechaeva s voleĭ iz Petropavlovskoĭ kreposti. Kuznet︠s︡ov Alekseĭ Kirillovich (1845-1928) - chlen nechaevskoĭ organizat︠s︡ii "Narodnai︠a︡ rasprava" i neposredstvennyĭ uchastnik ubiĭstva studenta I.I.Ivanova (1869), obvinennogo Nechaevym v predatel'stve; po ėtomu delu byl prigovoren k 10 godam kreposti, zamenennymi katorzhnymi rabotami, zatem poseleniem v Sibiri. V 1905 g. vstupil v PSR; v 1906 prigovoren vremennym voennym sudom pri generale Rennenkampfe k smertnoĭ kazni, zamenennoĭ 10-letneĭ katorgoĭ.
  • -  Original image at: Irkutsk State University
  • -  From the photo album "Акатуйская каторга."
  • -  Мирский, Лев Филиппович - родился в 1858 г. в дворянской семье. В 1877 г. поступил в Медико-хирургическую академию. В 1878 г. арестован по подозрению в участии в революционном движении, но 1879 г. освобожден на поруки. 13 марта 1879 г. по личной инициативе стрелял в шефа жандармов Дрентельна. Арестован 6 июля 1879 г. в Таганроге. Приговорен к смертной казни, заменена бессрочной каторгой. В 1895 г. вышел на посел. В 1906 г. судился карательной экспедицией Ренненкампфа. Приговорен к смертной казни, заменена бессрочной каторгой. На поселение вышел по "богодульской комиссии". Умер в Верхнеудинске в 1919 - 20 гг. После Февральской революции выяснилось, что Мирский выдал сношения Нечаева с волей из Петропавловской крепости. Кузнецов Алексей Кириллович (1845-1928) - член нечаевской организации "Народная расправа" и непосредственный участник убийства студента И.И.Иванова (1869), обвиненного Нечаевым в предательстве; по этому делу был приговорен к 10 годам крепости, замененными каторжными работами, затем поселением в Сибири. В 1905 г. вступил в ПСР; в 1906 приговорен временным военным судом при генерале Ренненкампфе к смертной казни, замененной 10-летней каторгой.

Medium

  • 1 photograph : black and white, glossy paper ; 11.2 x 8.0 cm.

Source Collection

  • Views of the Akatuy Hard Labor Camp

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018684979

Online Format

  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , Associated Name. Mirskiĭ, Kuznet︠s︡ov, Shinkman. Russian Federation Zabaykalsky Krai Novyy Akatuy, 1906. [Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga: publisher not identified, to 1911] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018684979/.

APA citation style:

Shinkman, I. A. (1906) Mirskiĭ, Kuznet︠s︡ov, Shinkman. Russian Federation Zabaykalsky Krai Novyy Akatuy, 1906. [Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga: publisher not identified, to 1911] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018684979/.

MLA citation style:

Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , Associated Name. Mirskiĭ, Kuznet︠s︡ov, Shinkman. [Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga: publisher not identified, to 1911] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018684979/>.