Photo, Print, Drawing Spiridonova M., Shinkman D. Спиридонова М., Шинкман Д.

Title

• Spiridonova M., Shinkman D.

Other Title

• Спиридонова М., Шинкман Д.

Translated Title

• M. Spiridonova and D. Shinkman.

Summary

• This photograph is from an album of 47 views of convicts and structures at the Akatuy Prison, one of the main centers where political prisoners were held in the Russian Empire during the late-tsarist period. The album belonged to Isaiah Aronovich Shinkman, a physician and member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, who was incarcerated at Akatuy from 1906 to 1911. The prison was located at the Akatuy silver mine in Nerchinsk okrug (district) in the Transbaikal Territory of Siberia. Thousands of political prisoners were exiled to Siberia from European Russia and from Poland, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia (all then part of the Russian Empire) following the repression of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Criminal labor convicts and political prisoners had long been sent to Nerchinsk to work in extracting lead-silver ores in the region's mines. The American explorer and journalist George Kennan (1845-1924) visited Akatuy in 1885, and wrote about his experience in his book Siberia and the Exile System (1891), a scathing critique of the system of prisons and prison camps in Russia. The album is held by the Irkutsk State University in Irkutsk and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. The photographs it contains offer glimpses into the day-to-day existence and activities of the political prisoners in Siberia in the years before World War I and the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1917. World Digital Library.

Names

• Shinkman, Isaiah Aronovich, , 1871-1924 , associated name.

Created / Published

• Zabaĭkal'e, Akatuĭskai︠a︡ katorga : [publisher not identified], [1906-1911]

Headings

• -  li︠u︡di
• -  odezhda
• -  boroda
• -  pensne
• -  Convict labor
• -  Criminals
• -  Exiles
• -  Political prisoners
• -  Portrait photographs
• -  Prisoners
• -  Revolutionaries
• -  Spiridonova, Marii︠a︡ Aleksandrovna, 1884-1941
• -  Russian Federation
• -  Zabaykalsky Krai
• -  Novyy Akatuy
• -  люди
• -  одежда
• -  борода
• -  пенсне

Notes

• -  Spiridonova Marii︠a︡ Aleksandrovna - rodilas' v 1884 g. v Tambove, v dvori︠a︡nskoĭ sem'e. Odna iz vidneĭshikh dei︠a︡tel'nit︠s︡ ėserov. 16 i︠a︡nvari︠a︡ 1906 g. ubila vit︠s︡e-gubernatora G.N.Luzhenovskogo, izvestnogo usmiriteli︠a︡ krest'i︠a︡nskikh volneniĭ. 11 marta 1906 g. prigovorena k smertnoĭ kazni cherez poveshenie, kotorai︠a︡ byla zamenena bessrochnoĭ katorgoĭ. Osvobozhdena v 1917 g. po amnistii. V 1917 g. - lider PLSR, pochetnyĭ predsedatel' ee uchreditel'nogo s"ezda. Ot podderzhki politiki bol'shevikov pereshla s vesny 1918 g. k ee kritike. Igrala vedushchui︠u︡ rol' v antibol'shevistskom vystuplenii 6 ii︠u︡li︠a︡ 1918 g. S 1918 g. neodnokratno podvergalas' arestam i ssylkam. V 1937 g. arestovana, v 1938 prigovorena k 25 godam ti︠u︡remnogo zakli︠u︡chenii︠a︡. V senti︠a︡bre 1941 g., pri podkhode germanskikh voĭsk k Orlu, rasstreli︠a︡na vmeste s drugimi politzakli︠u︡chennymi.
• -  Original image at: Irkutsk State University
• -  From the photo album "Акатуйская каторга."
• -  Спиридонова Мария Александровна - родилась в 1884 г. в Тамбове, в дворянской семье. Одна из виднейших деятельниц эсеров. 16 января 1906 г. убила вице-губернатора Г.Н.Луженовского, известного усмирителя крестьянских волнений. 11 марта 1906 г. приговорена к смертной казни через повешение, которая была заменена бессрочной каторгой. Освобождена в 1917 г. по амнистии. В 1917 г. - лидер ПЛСР, почетный председатель ее учредительного съезда. От поддержки политики большевиков перешла с весны 1918 г. к ее критике. Играла ведущую роль в антибольшевистском выступлении 6 июля 1918 г. С 1918 г. неоднократно подвергалась арестам и ссылкам. В 1937 г. арестована, в 1938 приговорена к 25 годам тюремного заключения. В сентябре 1941 г., при подходе германских войск к Орлу, расстреляна вместе с другими политзаключенными.

Medium

• 1 photograph : black and white, glossy paper ; 6.0 x 7.0 cm.

Source Collection

• Views of the Akatuy Hard Labor Camp

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.2018684965
• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.18675

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018684965

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018684965

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