Петербург - Тобольск - Омск - Семипалатинск (о пути Достоевского на каторгу и в ссылку)
Petersburg - Tobolsk - Omsk - Semipalatinsk (on Dostoevsky’s Path to Penal Servitude and Exile)

Summary/Abstract: Using epistolary and memoir evidence, as well as relying on the data of the “Postal Road Worker of the Russian Empire” of 1852, the article reconstructs the route used to bring Dostoevsky and two of his fellow Petrashevites, Sergei Durov and Ivan Yastrzhembsky from St. Petersburg to Tobolsk in December 1849 — January 1850. Along the way, they spent eleven days in a local transit prison and the all-Siberian Order on exiles determined the place where they would serve their penal servitude sentence. In the course of the presentation, the author of the article critically analyzes the unreliable version of Dostoevsky and his companions’ route to Siberia, which was presented on the map in the publication “Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents” (1972). A detailed route that was used to bring Dostoevsky and Durov from Tobolsk to the Omsk prison (and Yastrzhembsky on January 21 to the Catherine Distillery) on January 20, 1850 is also described. In the final part of the article, the route that Dostoevsky took in late February — early March 1854 is examined. He traveled from Omsk to Semipalatinsk, where, upon completion of penal servitude, he had to serve as an ordinary soldier in the Siberian Line No. 7 battalion.

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