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the subjugated natives, under pretext of their taxes being
in arrear, but the amount of these taxes was never fixed”.
Driven to despair by these constant extortions, the natives
revolted, but these risings were quenched in blood, thanks
to the firearms of their oppressors. A whole series of the
most barbarous punishments were then inflicted on the rebels.
By order of the vojevode Golovin, the ears and noses of the
rebellious Yakuts were cut off and their eyes put out; they
were suspended by iron hooks fastened in their backs and
between their ribs, and some of them were buried alive.
Within the old fort there was a special torture-chamber,
where the torture-master worked from early in the morning
till late at night. A short respite was afforded the natives
when quarrels arose between the vojevodes Gleboff and
Golovin over the spoil. Golovin, who was dismissed and
punished with the knout, was succeeded by a number of
vojevodes who remained only a short time at their post.
But the extortions from the natives did not diminish, and
their sufferings became intolerable when Andrei Afanasevitch
Baryschnieff was appointed to the office of vojevode in
Yakutsk in the year 1675. It was during his rule that
political offenders and sectarians began to be exiled to the
province of Yakutsk, the former usually arriving there with
their tongues cut out. “When Baryschnieff entered on his
office,” says the above-quoted Moskvin in his narrative, “a
régime of veritable terrorism began. Almost every day
sectarians and natives were executed in Yakutsk in the
most barbarous manner.” The smallest offences were
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