CONTENTS.
| [INTRODUCTION.] | |
| Siberia—Adventures of Beniowski—Madame Felinska—M. Rufin Pietrowski | [Page 1-9] |
| [CHAPTER I.] OF A MISSION INTO POLAND. | |
| A passport—The journey—The Russian frontier—Kaminieç—A teacher of languages—Annoyances of disguise—M. Abaza—Suspicions of the Police | [10-24] |
| [CHAPTER II.] OF MY ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT AT BRAÇLAW. | |
| Arrest—Examination—Major Poloutkovskï—Journey to Braçlaw—An accident—The prison—A Russian scene—Kiow | [25-40] |
| [CHAPTER III.] OF MY IMPRISONMENT AT KIOW, AND MY DEPARTURE FOR SIBERIA. | |
| The fortress at Kiow—Prince Bibikov—Examination—A Commission of Inquiry—A Bible—Fellow-prisoners—The maniac—Preparations for ‘Deportation’—The Sentence | [41-59] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] OF DEPORTATION, AND THE LIFE OF AN EXILE IN SIBERIA. | |
| The knout and the plète—Running the gauntlet—Gangs of exiles—Grand-Duchess Marie—The journey—Russian alms—A ‘pope’—The Russian soldier—Omsk—Prince Gortchakov—Ekaterinski-Zavod | [60-81] |
| [CHAPTER V.] THE KATORGA. | |
| Companions in exile—The katorga—A murderer—The felons—Kantier—Pay and punishments—The counting-house | [82-102] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] SIBERIA. | |
| Siberia—Hardships of deportation—Breaking the ban—The Abbé Sierocinski—His conspiracy and execution | [103-114] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] THE FLIGHT. | |
| An attempt—My route—My funds—My dress—A sledge—A Russian theft—The journey—Irbite—On foot—A night’s lodging—Danger—Cold and famine—Paouda—The izbouchka—The crest of the Ourals—Lost in the forest—Sleep—Alms—Véliki-Oustiong | [115-152] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] THE PILGRIM AND THE PILGRIMAGE. | |
| Pilgrimages—The Bohomolets—Manners and customs in Véliki-Oustiong—On the Dvina—Archangel—The devotions of the pilgrims—Difficulties—Hope deferred | [153-169] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] THE WHITE SEA. | |
| The monastery of Solovetsk—The prisoner of Solovetsk—Heterodoxy and orthodoxy—The promontory—A farther journey—Onega—St. Petersburg | [170-194] |
| [CHAPTER X.] THE RETURN TO PARIS. | |
| The moujik’s passage—Lithuania—The Prussian frontier—Königsberg—Arrest and captivity—M. Kamke—Bail—Flight—Arrival in Paris—The end | [195-208] |
| [POLAND] A CENTURY AFTER ITS DIVISION: AND THE LATE AGITATION IN WARSAW. | |
| A century—1772—Battle of Macejowice and Kosciusko—Treaty of 1815—Opinion of M. de Talleyrand—Cracow—Treaty of Vienna, Article 6—Policy of Alexander—Policy of Prussia—Policy of the Emperor of Austria—Nicholas the Tzar—Violent assimilation of Poland with Russia—Posen—Cracow—The last thirty years—Massacre in Galicia—1848—Crimean war—The Polish question—Efforts for internal reform—Temperance league—The Agricultural Society—Count Andrew Zamoyski—Krasinski—‘Aurora’—Amnesty of Alexander II.—Conference at Warsaw—Position of Russia | [211-263] |
| [A YEAR OF AGITATION IN POLAND.] | |
| Solution of the Polish question—War in the Crimea—Congress in Paris—Allocution of the Czar—1856—‘No dreams’—1860—February 25, 1861—Count Andrew Zamoyski—Prince Gortchakof—His death—General Souchozanett—The Marquis Wiélopolski—Vacillating policy of Russia—7th and 8th of April, 1861—A contested nationality—Horoldo—The procession—The Polish eagle—The elections—State of siege—15th and 16th of October—General Lambert—Exiles—Catholicism in Poland—The Welicorus—Poland and Russia | [267-321] |