Vol. 5 · No. 1

Andrew A. Gentes

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Abstract

This article presents a first step towards creation of a demographic analysis of Siberia's exilic population during the nineteenth century. The article makes the argument that traditional Russian attitudes towards children were reflected on a macroscopic scale in the state's treatment of the children of criminals and other deviants deported and exiled to Siberia and the Russian Far East. The article uses a statistical approach as well as anecdotal materials to suggest some of the possible impacts the deportation of tens of thousands of children had on the later history of Russia.

Keywords: Dobrovol'nye, exile, Sakhalin, Kara, Irkutsk, D.A. Dril'