Title

Nerchinskoi katorgi. Views and inhabitants of the Nerchinsk hard labor camps

Caption

Nerchinskoi katorgi (Views and inhabitants of the Nerchinsk hard labor camps) is an album of 74 photographs taken by Aleksei Kirillovich Kuznetsov (1845-1928) in July 1891. The Nerchinsk katorga was part of the katorga (forced labor) system of imperial Russia, located in the province of Transbaikalia (present-day Zabaykal'skiy Kray), near the Russian border with China. Common criminals and political prisoners alike were sent to these camps to work the nearby mines and their associated smelting plants. Kuznetsov himself was a political prisoner, sentenced in 1873 to permanent exile in Siberia and six years of hard labor at the Kara mines

Date

1891

Credit line

Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library

Reference

ARP24A01_115

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,4Mb (2,2Mb) / 15,6in x 12,8in / 4684 x 3838 (300dpi)

Keywords

Nerchinskoi katorgi inhabitants Nerchinsk hard labor camps Aleksei Kirillovich Kuznetsov katorga forced labor Imperial Russia province Transbaikalia Russian border China criminals political prisoners political prisoner permanent exile Siberia 19th century Russia

Restrictions

Editorial use only.