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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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have got in my hurried journey through the country. What
struck me at the first glance were the long columns filled
with notices of robberies and murders. Here, for example,
is a notice of a herd of cattle and horses having been
lifted on the steppe, there another of a daring burglary,
followed by a list of several robberies and murders which
had taken place in open daylight, and of travellers who had
been attacked and killed by brigands, etc. And these events
did not strike the Siberians as anything abnormal. To
them they were common occurrences. In a town of some
30,000 inhabitants—Krasnoyarsk to wit—about 50 robberies
with murder were said to occur annually. Another
subject occupying much space in these newspapers was the
distress among the immigrants and the lack of
well-organised relief. The occurrence of 3000 cases of disease
among a single week’s importation of these wretched people
was noted, and it was reported that there were 15,000
persons crowded together at one “emigration point” on the
Ob, waiting for transport, etc. There were also notices
and articles about the way in which the poor colonists fell
into the hands of usurers and low-class lawyers, reducing
them to abject poverty; and others about the constant
collisions occurring between the old and the new settlers.
Another subject which was discussed in these papers was
the lack of popular education and how to provide for this.
One paper complained that in Irkutsk, where living is
exorbitantly dear, a school-teacher received a salary of only
16 to 21 roubles a month, and that only about one quarter

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