Contents

Preface

Peter Kropotkin

IN RUSSIAN AND FRENCH PRISONS

Introductory

Chapter I - My first acquaintance with Russian prisons

Chapter II - Russian prisons

Chapter III - The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.

Chapter IV - Outcast Russia

Chapter V – The exile in Siberia

Chapter VI - The exile on Sakhalin.

Chapter VII - A foreigner on Russian prisons.

Chapter VIII - In French prisons

Chapter IX - On the moral influence of prisons on prisoners.

Chapter X - Are prisons necessary?

Appendix A - Extracts from the "Act of accusation" brought before a court martial against the soldiers charged with having carried correspondence between the prisoners of the Alexis Ravelin and their acquaintances.

Appendix B - Part played by the exiles in the colonization of Siberia.

Appendix C - Extracts from the report read by M. Shakeeff at the sitting of the representatives of the St. Petersburg nobility on February 17th, 1881 (O.S.).

Appendix D - On reformatories for boys in France.

Notes