The House of the Dead (Prison Life in Siberia)
By
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
PART 1.
CHAPTER I. TEN YEARS A CINVICT
In the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forest of the desert region of Siberia, one meets from time to time with little towns of a thousand or two inhabitants, built entirely of woods, very ugly, with two churches---one in the centre of the town, the other in the cemetery--in a word, towns which bear much more resemblance to a good-sized village in the suburbs of Moscow than to a town properly so called.
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