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The day of scheduled prisoner transport had arrived, and Pëtr Vasil’evich bid his farewell to all his friends and the residents of Shenkursk. There were also many brothers and sisters who came from the neighbouring villages in order to see him off and tell him for the last time: “Good luck [Dobryǐ chas] to you, Pëtr Vasil’evich, and may our Lord bless you and grant you well-being on every day of your life. You are leaving good memories behind you that we will never forget. You comforted us in our privations and poverty not only with your words, but with your deeds as well.” While saying this, many people wept.
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Shenkursk is a town in Northern Russia; it was one of the places of exile of Pëtr Verigin.
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Vel’sk (Velsk) a town in the South of Arkhangel’sk region.
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Iaroslavl’ (Yaroslavl) is a city on the Volga river, about 250 km to the north-east of Moscow.
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Butyrskaia (Butyrskaya) prison or Butyrka (for short) is a prison in Moscow that was the central transport prison in Imperial Russia.
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“Tolstoyan” means a follower of Tolstoy’s teachings.
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Evgeniǐ Ivanovich Popov was a man of letters, a vegetarian and a friend and follower of Tolstoy.
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Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoǐ) (1828–1910) is a famous Russian writer, the author of “War and Peace,” “Anna Karenina” and multiple other novels. He also was a philosopher and thinker who developed the concept of not resisting evil with violence (non-violent resistance). He was a great sympathizer and supporter of the Doukhobors and assisted them in resettlement to Canada.
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Red Gate was a triumphal arch celebrating a Russian victory in an early eighteenth-century battle with Sweden. It was pulled down in 1920s.
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Kola is a town in Kola peninsular, Murmansk area, a remote location in the north of the European part of Russia.
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Arkhangel’sk (Arkhangelsk) is a city in the north of the European part of Russia.
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Tula is a town in Central Russia about 200 km to the south of Moscow.
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Riazhsk is a town in Riazan’ region, located to the south of Moscow.
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Mezen’ (Mezen) is a town in the Arkhangel’sk (Arkhangelsk) area in the north of the European part of Russia, close to the Arctic Polar Circle.
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Olonets is a town in the Republic of Karelia, a subject of the Russian Federation. It is located in the Karelian peninsula.
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Transcaucasia is an area in and around the Caucasus mountains (located between the Caspian and the Black sea). It is comprised mostly of the territories of the modern states of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. At the time of the narrative, it was the territory of the Russian Empire.
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Akhalkalak (modern Akhalkalaki) is an administrative district in the country of Georgia. Now an independent state, in Imperial Russia, Georgia constituted Tiflis guberniia.
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Verigin, G.V. (2019). Prisoner Transport of Pëtr Vasil’evich to Obdorsk, Tobol’sk Guberniia. In: Makarova, V., Ewashen, L. (eds) The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18525-1_12
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