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fourteen years hard labor in the mines, and then to
exile to Siberia for life.”
Immediately after it was announced to him that the
Tsar in his mercy has commuted the fourteen years hard
labor to seven. Then he received an order to kneel
down. They broke a sword over his head, and chained
him for some minutes to the pillory. A bouquet of
flowers falls down at his feet. The bouquets which
follow are thrown into the air by the police. He is
taken to the wagon, and vanishes....[1]
He vanished, never more to be seen among those who
admired him, and who were indebted to him for the best
part of their intellectual culture. He passed his seven
years among the criminals in the mines underground,
then fifteen years more in solitary exile in one of the
most distant points of Siberia, without books, without
men with whom he could exchange ideas, cut off from
all communion with Europe. A year or two since they
at last found the prisoner sufficiently subdued by his
martyrdom of more than twenty years. They transferred
him to a milder place of banishment, and allowed
him to occupy himself in a harmless manner by
translations and similar things.
He is now and then visited there by some faithful
admirers, who dare to expose themselves to the odium
which follows upon such visits; and I know of nothing
more significant of the contentment into which public
opinion has sunk in Russia, than the satisfaction with
which those who have seen him express their
impressions on their return: “Tchernuishevski is well," they
say generally; “he is not entirely broken down
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