Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.
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The 17th Century 'Renaissance' in Russia: Western Influences on Art and Architecture
According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been suggested.