File:Side-lights on Siberia (1898), page 207, The church at Alexandrovsky Central.jpg
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The church at Alexandrovsky Central Identifier: sidelightsonsibe00simp Title: Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Simpson, James Young, 1873-1934 Subjects: Prisons -- Soviet Union Exiles -- Russia (Federation) Siberia Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: The church at Alexandrovsky Central. walls, there are half as many again upon the roll. It isunusual to find a convict there whose sentence extends overhalf-a-dozen years. As you drive down towards the western end of the village,where are the prison buildings, you observe that they arelargely hidden by the beautiful church which stands outboldly, lying, as usual, east and west. A pair of artisti- 208 ALEXANDROVSKY CENTRAL. cally painted ikoiu adarii the eastern outer wall. As already-stated, the church is entirely the work of convict hands.The terra-cotta bricks, with their white pointing, harmonisedelicately with the tasteful bluish - grey that clothes theroof and cupolas, while the outlines of the windows arealso accentuated by being picked out in white. The outsideeffect, therefore, cheery and gay (as are all liussian outsideeffects), is essentially agreeable to the eye. Ten yards fromits main entrance on the west, and immediately oppositeto it, is a gate opening out of the prison-ya
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