Photo, Print, Drawing Bit︠s︡enko A. Биценко А.
About this Item
Title
- Bit︠s︡enko A.
Other Title
- Биценко А.
Translated Title
- A. Bitsenko.
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
- - portret
- - odezhda
- - Convict labor
- - Criminals
- - Exiles
- - Political prisoners
- - Portrait photographs
- - Prisoners
- - Revolutionaries
- - Russian Federation
- - Zabaykalsky Krai
- - Novyy Akatuy
- - портрет
- - одежда
Notes
- - Bit︠s︡enko (urozhdennai︠a︡ Kameristai︠a︡) Anastasii︠a︡ Alekseevna - rodilas' v 1875 g. v krest'i︠a︡nskoĭ sem'e, uchitel'nit︠s︡a. Dei︠a︡tel'nit︠s︡a partii sot︠s︡ialistov-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionerov , 22 noi︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1905 g. ubila generala Sakharova v Saratove za usmirenie krest'i︠a︡nskikh volneniĭ. 3 marta 1906 goda prigovorena k smertnoĭ kazni, zameneno bessrochnoĭ katorgoĭ. Osvobozhdena v 1917 godu po amnistii. Posle Okti︠a︡br'skoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii chlen T︠S︡K levykh ėserov. Deputat VT︠S︡IK, v 1918 g. - tovarishch predsedateli︠a︡ Sovnarkoma Moskvy i Moskovskoĭ oblasti; uchastvovala v mirnykh peregovorakh s Germanieĭ v Brest-Litovske. V noi︠a︡bre 1918 g. vstupila v RKP(b). Rabotala v kooperat︠s︡ii, na sovetskoĭ i partiĭnoĭ rabote. V fevrale 1938 g. arestovana i 16 ii︠u︡ni︠a︡ togo zhe goda rasstreli︠a︡na po prigovoru Voennoĭ kollegii Verkhovnogo suda SSSR.
- - Original image at: Irkutsk State University
- - From the photo album "Акатуйская каторга."
- - Биценко (урожденная Камеристая) Анастасия Алексеевна - родилась в 1875 г. в крестьянской семье, учительница. Деятельница партии социалистов-революционеров , 22 ноября 1905 г. убила генерала Сахарова в Саратове за усмирение крестьянских волнений. 3 марта 1906 года приговорена к смертной казни, заменено бессрочной каторгой. Освобождена в 1917 году по амнистии. После Октябрьской революции член ЦК левых эсеров. Депутат ВЦИК, в 1918 г. - товарищ председателя Совнаркома Москвы и Московской области; участвовала в мирных переговорах с Германией в Брест-Литовске. В ноябре 1918 г. вступила в РКП(б). Работала в кооперации, на советской и партийной работе. В феврале 1938 г. арестована и 16 июня того же года расстреляна по приговору Военной коллегии Верховного суда СССР.
Medium
- 1 photograph : black and white, glossy paper ; 9.0 x 6.3 cm.
Source Collection
- Views of the Akatuy Hard Labor Camp
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2018684987
Online Format
- image