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In 1875 no less than 1345 families in Tomsk disappeared
in the same way.
Such independent flourishing colonies, as I have
stated, have from time to time been discovered in various
parts of Siberia, especially in the forest-regions of Tomsk
and on the borders of Mongolia, and sometimes even
beyond the Russian boundaries. On their discovery the
runaways have often been severely punished, but on
account of their large number they have of late years
escaped without any further penalty than that of being placed
under official rule. [1]
The gold-fields and the distilleries have created the first
beginnings of modern industry in Siberia. The
“gold-Barons” Sibiriakoff, Basilevsky, Njemtchin and others, and
the Siberian “vodka-king”, Kosiello Poklevsky, have led
the way. Immense quantities of vodka are consumed in
Siberia. Vodka plays the principal part in the trade with
the natives; the working-men pour their small earnings
down their throats in the shape of vodka during the
many obligatory saints’-days and “saint-Mondays”; and
the peasants do likewise. Thus the peasants of Minusinsk,
for example, consumed vodka to the value of no less
than one million roubles during the year 1896. [2] The first
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