Following F. M. Dostoevsky's ways: the poles in Siberia. The review of the book travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia. Encounters with Polish literary exiles / By Elizabeth A. Blake (Boston 2019)

The review of the Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia. Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles by Elizabeth A. Blake (Boston 2019) is devoted to the description and analysis of the modern study of the destinies of the members of the Petrashevsky circle and the Polish exiles in Siberia. It is shown that extensive factual material has been introduced into scientific circulation and that Siberian life of F. M. Dostoevsky and the members of the Petrashevsky circle performs the function of historical and cultural background, on which the history of the Poles’ stay in Siberia is drawn.