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Siberian Exile: The Romanovs' Frozen Prison
When the Romanovs exiled their enemies, they didn't just send them away — they sent them to a place designed to erase them. This episode follows the journey from St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress to the katorga camps of Nerchinsk, where Decembrists, revolutionaries, and even the Romanovs' own relatives endured a fate worse than death. We trace the tsars' elaborate system of forced labor and internal exile, from Catherine the Great's punishment of Alexander Radishchev to the brutal conditions of the Kara katorga, and ask what it meant for a regime to build its…
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