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Photo, Print, Drawing Kulikovskiĭ, Shinkman. Куликовский, Шинкман.

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Title

  • Kulikovskiĭ, Shinkman.

Other Title

  • Куликовский, Шинкман.

Translated Title

  • Kulikovsky 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

  • -  reshetka
  • -  katorzhniki
  • -  pensne
  • -  zakli︠u︡chennye
  • -  ti︠u︡r'ma
  • -  Convict labor
  • -  Criminals
  • -  Exiles
  • -  Political prisoners
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Prisoners
  • -  Revolutionaries
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Zabaykalsky Krai
  • -  Novyy Akatuy
  • -  решетка
  • -  каторжники
  • -  пенсне
  • -  заключенные
  • -  тюрьма

Notes

  • -  Kulikovskiĭ, Petr Aleksandrovich (1870-?) - ėser. Uchastvoval vo mnogikh terroristicheskikh akt︠s︡ii︠a︡kh, uchastnik pokushenii︠a︡ na velikogo kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Sergei︠a︡ Aleksandrovicha. Arestovan 11 ii︠u︡ni︠a︡ 1905 g., bezhal, a 28 ii︠u︡ni︠a︡ togo zhe goda ubil moskovskogo gradonachal'nika grafa Shuvalova. Sudilsi︠a︡ voenno-okruzhnym sudom 23 ii︠u︡li︠a︡ 1905 g. Prigovoren k smertnoĭ kazni, zamenennoĭ vechnoĭ katorgoĭ. Na poselenie vyshel v 1911 g. po "bogodul'skoĭ komissii". Ssylku otbyval v I︠A︡kutskoĭ oblasti, gde ostalsi︠a︡ posle revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii 1917 g. Uchastnik Ufimskogo gosudarstvennogo soveshchanii︠a︡. V period grazhdanskoĭ voĭny byl na storone belykh. V marte 1923 g. vzi︠a︡t v plen sovetskimi voĭskami v otri︠a︡de generala Pepeli︠a︡eva. Pokonchil samoubiĭstvom.
  • -  Original image at: Irkutsk State University
  • -  From the photo album "Акатуйская каторга."
  • -  Куликовский, Петр Александрович (1870-?) - эсер. Участвовал во многих террористических акциях, участник покушения на великого князя Сергея Александровича. Арестован 11 июня 1905 г., бежал, а 28 июня того же года убил московского градоначальника графа Шувалова. Судился военно-окружным судом 23 июля 1905 г. Приговорен к смертной казни, замененной вечной каторгой. На поселение вышел в 1911 г. по "богодульской комиссии". Ссылку отбывал в Якутской области, где остался после революции 1917 г. Участник Уфимского государственного совещания. В период гражданской войны был на стороне белых. В марте 1923 г. взят в плен советскими войсками в отряде генерала Пепеляева. Покончил самоубийством.

Medium

  • 1 photograph : black and white, glossy paper ; 10.8 x 7.8 cm.

Source Collection

  • Views of the Akatuy Hard Labor Camp

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018684980

Online Format

  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , Associated Name. Kulikovskiĭ, Shinkman. Russian Federation Zabaykalsky Krai Novyy Akatuy, 1906. [Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga: publisher not identified, to 1911] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018684980/.

APA citation style:

Shinkman, I. A. (1906) Kulikovskiĭ, 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/2018684980/.

MLA citation style:

Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , Associated Name. Kulikovskiĭ, Shinkman. [Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga: publisher not identified, to 1911] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018684980/>.