[Ivan Cherniavski, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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[Ivan Cherniavski, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Kennan describes Cherniavski and his wife as two of the most interesting political exiles that he met in Irkutsk in September, 1885. The couple were banished to the Tobolsk province by administrative process in 1878. In 1881, when Cherniavski refused to take the oath of allegiance to Tsar Alexander III, they were sent further east, first to Krasno u arsk, then to Irkutsk, and finally to a settlement 165 miles from I Akutsk.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080).
Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

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01/01/1880
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Chita (Chitinskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia)52.03333, 113.55000
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Library of Congress
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