Chapter I: Front Matter

The visit of “my wife”—More plans of escape—The Public 30-41
Prosecutor shows his hand—reparations for a journey

CHAPTER V
The journey to Russia—In the cattle-truck—The Frankfort 42-48
and Berlin prisons—The frontier-station—Through Warsaw
to Petersburg

CHAPTER VI
The Fortress of Peter and Paul—The Public Prosecutor as 49-57
compatriot—A hard-hearted doctor—A fleeting acquaintance

CHAPTER VII
Changed conditions—A frustrated plan—The minister’s 58-66
visit—A secret of State—My literary neighbour

CHAPTER VIII
Fresh fears—The Colonel of Gendarmerie—Inquiry into the 67-72
case of General Mezentzev’s murder—Meeting with
Bogdanovitch—Departure

CHAPTER IX
A ray of hope—An unheard-of régime—The hunger-strike—Our 73-82
club—A secret ally

CHAPTER X
A brave officer—My military service—The trial—Further 83-93
examinations

CHAPTER XI
The visit of the minister—I am turned into a convict—The 94-104
prison at Kiëv

CHAPTER XII
New acquaintances—The girl-conspirators of Romny—Arrival 105-114
in Moscow—Companions in destiny—A liberal-minded
governor

CHAPTER XIII
The trial of the fourteen—Recollections of Vera 115-122
Figner—Numerous imprisonments—_Agents Provocateurs_

CHAPTER XIV
A not incorruptible inspector—Broken fetters—Resistance to 123-129
the shaving process—Visitors in the prison

CHAPTER XV
Political condition of Russia and the revolutionary 130-137
party—Our little society—Fête days—Prohibited visits—A
lecture on manners

CHAPTER XVI
Preparations for our travels—The boat journey by the Volga 138-147
and the Kama—Ekaterinburg—On the troika—“To Europe, to
Asia”

CHAPTER XVII
In Tiumen—Parting—On the Siberian rivers—A startling 148-157
proposal

CHAPTER XVIII
By way of the convoy-stations—A clumsy officer—The 158-168
vagabond—A man-hunt

CHAPTER XIX
The forest—Unsuccessful attempts at escape—The people we 169-183
met—The criminal world—The convoy officers

CHAPTER XX
From Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk—Misunderstandings and 184-193
disputes—The women in Irkutsk prison

CHAPTER XXI
The chief of police at Irkutsk—Meeting with exiled 194-208
comrades—From Irkutsk to Kara—Stolen fetters—A dubious
kind of Decabrist—Another contest—Arrival at our
journey’s end

CHAPTER XXII
First days at Kara—Friends old and new 209-220

CHAPTER XXIII
The organisation of our common life—The “Siriuses”—Wagers 221-232

CHAPTER XXIV
Some details of the prison’s history—The “Tom-cat”—The 233-247
“Sanhedrin’s room“—My first Siberian spring

CHAPTER XXV
Humours and pastimes of prison life—Two new 248-265
commandants—The “Hospital”—The participators in armed
resistance

CHAPTER XXVI
The women’s prison 266-274

CHAPTER XXVII
The “colonists”—Further events in the women’s prison—The 275-282
hunger-strikes—The Yakutsk massacre

CHAPTER XXVIII
Our celebration of the centenary of the French 283-290
Revolution—Sergius Bobohov—The end of the tragedy

CHAPTER XXIX
Disquieting reports—Visit of the Governor-General—Release 291-299
from prison

CHAPTER XXX
Nizhnaya-Kara—New life—Stolen gold 300-306

CHAPTER XXXI
The tour of the Heir-Apparent through Siberia—Our life in 307-315
the penal settlement—An incensed official

CHAPTER XXXII
The death of the Tsar—New manifestoes—The census 316-322

CHAPTER XXXIII
A prehistoric monument—My departure from Kara—Life in 323-346
Stretyensk—My transference to Blagovèstshensk—The
massacres of July, 1900