Pre-revolutionary Russia in the photos. Prisons and convicts

Alexander Central Prison, about sixty miles from Irkutsk.

Prison in Irkutsk

Old Russian prison, built by the Cossacks

Convicts

Convicts, landing on a barge near Tyumen in Western Siberia.

Barge with convicts in the ice on the river. Tyumen.

Barges with deportees. Tyumen. 1885.

Runaway convicts

Stage.

Stage. 1885.

Convicts on common jobs; Kara mine; Xnumx

Kara Mine in Eastern Siberia; prison barracks in 1885 year. Cartel for ordinary criminals as well as political offenders.

A group of exiled women and their children facing registration barracks.

Prisoners acquire provisions from local residents

A group of prisoners. Siberia, 1885.

A group of prisoners on the road near Tomsk.

Prisoners dine on the side of the road.

A group of convicts descending to the barge

Large group of prisoners

Irkutsk prison

Comments

[heruv1me]

Yes PPC, especially in children .. Think what you say.

[djon3volta]

the faces of the children are not visible there. and the faces of the convicts show that they did not eat sparingly. maybe they are not happy, but certainly not hungry.

[Sanches]

And not only by faces - half of the photo is a natural picnic. Of course, their life was not honey, but they were clearly not starved of hunger. And if you compare with the peasant photographs laid out in the next topic, it is immediately noticeable that the convicts were given boots

[ken]

Propaganda, if then they worked for sixteen hours for hire, then the convicts plowed like Karla's dads, it could not be so that it was better in hard labor than in life. At best, they were dressed up and the boots were given for photographing, which, by the way, was an event at that time, at worst, the guards were disguised, or locals, of course, these were photographs made to order, for the central "correct" newspapers
..Boots yes, this is a thing, unless you think about the fact that they make a thousand kilometers walk on foot in them.

[Sanches]

inmates and in Africa inmates. if for every prisoner power is overthrown, then there will be no power. let's see photos of prisoners of the Soviet period or the present, to what division will your righteous anger rise then?

[Sanches]

ken Today, 17: 11
Propaganda, if then they worked for hired workers for sixteen hours, then the convicts plowed like dads Carla, but it couldn’t be that it was better at penal servitude than in life.

An 8-hour working day is a great achievement of socialism (for some reason, widespread in countries of "decaying capitalism"), but let's not forget that people from that time to this day work 12 hours a day (at bakeries, in guards, at a sewing production, etc.), and even for days, even in "Tsarist Russia", even in the USSR, even in the Russian Federation, even in the USA and in any other country, and nobody is accused of this

[omsbon]

What is the appeal of old photos? Probably in our great desire to find out how it used to be, how we lived, what we dreamed about.

[Flooding]

Why duplicate photos? Or did the author post everything he found on a given topic?
And watching is just some mystical pleasure. It pulls in like a whirlpool.

[valerei]

Oh yeah! Here I look and think: How many people went through Siberia, and there was no trace of them. Dust, dirt, weeds and there is nothing more.

[vladimirZ]

Don't speak if you don't know and understand the essence. All native Siberians are descendants of former exiles and convicts. The raised and developed Siberia, thousands and thousands of villages and villages, hundreds of cities in Siberia - this is the result of the work of the sons and their descendants. In the end, the fact that Siberia remained assigned to Russia and became Russia is a merit of the exiles. The exiles and their descendants, who became Siberians, many who became related to the local population, differed from the Central European Russians in their love of freedom, fortitude, strong prosperous economy, "not breaking hats" in front of the authorities.

[dark_65]

Traces remained .. lived in Transbaikalia, there are many descendants there, and ..... an apple from an apple tree ....

[silver owl]

From prison and sumy do not renounce. And from the roads ...

[Aryan]

It is a pity there is no Lena in the photographs ...

[FIMUK]

ZK, they are everywhere ZK.

[Harleone]

I can’t believe such photos. They are convicts and convicts in order to redeem, redeem, and once again redeem, even if not deservedly

[Sanches]

I wonder why all the signatures are in English

[Illuminati]

Quote: Sanches

I wonder why all the signatures are in English

really

[Tatanka Yotanka]

at the first two prisons-like home culture in towns

[AK-47]

Quote: Tatanka Yotanka

at the first two prisons-like home culture in towns

But the house of culture "Irkutsk prison" today has not changed much.

[zementiy]

Then, as they say, they were corrected by labor, and now dormoids are sitting on the neck of the state (I mean those who are deservedly sitting)

[Said]

all work!

[tomaz99]

is it the bolsheviks? or who? Thanks to the one who saved these photos. Well, the one who posted these photos here - without details (where, what, how!?) - Radish. !!

[ko88]

in our area in the zones, convicts eat better than many ordinary people are free to eat, they have everything from vodka with drugs to regular barbecue frying on a prom.