CONTENTS

Translator’s PrefacePages [v-xii]
CHAPTER I
Journey to Germany—Imprisonment in Freiburg—Episodes from the past of the Revolutionary movement[1-11]
CHAPTER II
The cause of my arrest—Professor Thun—My defence—Plans of escape—My legal adviser[12-20]
CHAPTER III
Uncertainty—Prison life—The Public Prosecutor—A change of cells[21-29]
CHAPTER IV
The visit of “my wife”—More plans of escape—The Public Prosecutor shows his hand—reparations for a journey[30-41]
CHAPTER V
The journey to Russia—In the cattle-truck—The Frankfort and Berlin prisons—The frontier-station—Through Warsaw to Petersburg[42-48]
CHAPTER VI
The Fortress of Peter and Paul—The Public Prosecutor as compatriot—A hard-hearted doctor—A fleeting acquaintance[49-57]
CHAPTER VII
Changed conditions—A frustrated plan—The minister’s visit—A secret of State—My literary neighbour[58-66]
CHAPTER VIII
Fresh fears—The Colonel of Gendarmerie—Inquiry into the case of General Mezentzev’s murder—Meeting with Bogdanovitch—Departure[67-72]
CHAPTER IX
A ray of hope—An unheard-of régime—The hunger-strike—Our club—A secret ally[73-82]
CHAPTER X
A brave officer—My military service—The trial—Further examinations[83-93]
CHAPTER XI
The visit of the minister—I am turned into a convict—The prison at Kiëv[94-104]
CHAPTER XII
New acquaintances—The girl-conspirators of Romny—Arrival in Moscow—Companions in destiny—A liberal-minded governor[105-114]
CHAPTER XIII
The trial of the fourteen—Recollections of Vera Figner—Numerous imprisonments—Agents Provocateurs[115-122]
CHAPTER XIV
A not incorruptible inspector—Broken fetters—Resistance to the shaving process—Visitors in the prison[123-129]
CHAPTER XV
Political condition of Russia and the revolutionary party—Our little society—Fête days—Prohibited visits—A lecture on manners[130-137]
CHAPTER XVI
Preparations for our travels—The boat journey by the Volga and the Kama—Ekaterinburg—On the troika—“To Europe, to Asia”[138-147]
CHAPTER XVII
In Tiumen—Parting—On the Siberian rivers—A startling proposal[148-157]
CHAPTER XVIII
By way of the convoy-stations—A clumsy officer—The vagabond—A man-hunt[158-168]
CHAPTER XIX
The forest—Unsuccessful attempts at escape—The people we met—The criminal world—The convoy officers[169-183]
CHAPTER XX
From Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk—Misunderstandings and disputes—The women in Irkutsk prison[184-193]
CHAPTER XXI
The chief of police at Irkutsk—Meeting with exiled comrades—From Irkutsk to Kara—Stolen fetters—A dubious kind of Decabrist—Another contest—Arrival at our journey’s end[194-208]
CHAPTER XXII
First days at Kara—Friends old and new[209-220]
CHAPTER XXIII
The organisation of our common life—The “Siriuses”—Wagers[221-232]
CHAPTER XXIV
Some details of the prison’s history—The “Tom-cat”—The “Sanhedrin’s room“—My first Siberian spring[233-247]
CHAPTER XXV
Humours and pastimes of prison life—Two new commandants—The “Hospital”—The participators in armed resistance[248-265]
CHAPTER XXVI
The women’s prison[266-274]
CHAPTER XXVII
The “colonists”—Further events in the women’s prison—The hunger-strikes—The Yakutsk massacre[275-282]
CHAPTER XXVIII
Our celebration of the centenary of the French Revolution—Sergius Bobohov—The end of the tragedy283-290
CHAPTER XXIX
Disquieting reports—Visit of the Governor-General—Release from prison291-299
CHAPTER XXX
Nizhnaya-Kara—New life—Stolen gold[300-306]
CHAPTER XXXI
The tour of the Heir-Apparent through Siberia—Our life in the penal settlement—An incensed official307-315
CHAPTER XXXII
The death of the Tsar—New manifestoes—The census316-322
CHAPTER XXXIII
A prehistoric monument—My departure from Kara—Life in Stretyensk—My transference to Blagovèstshensk—The massacres of July, 1900[323-346]
CHAPTER XXXIV
My flight from Siberia—The end of my journey round the world—My friend Axelrod again—Conclusion[347-359]
Index[361]