Life in a Penal Battalion of the Imperial Russian Army: The Tolstoyan Iziumchenko
N.T. Iziumchenko (trans. by Peter Brock and John L.H. Keep), "Life in a Penal Battalion of the Imperial Russian Army: The Tolstoyan N.T. Iziumchenko's Story"
Syracuse University Press, Inc. | 2001 (trans. of 1905 original) | ISBN 1850722617 | 63 pgs. | PDF | 13MB
In 1891 a drafted peasant from Kursk province named Nikolai Trofimovich Iziumchenko decided to adhere to the pacifist teachings of the novelist Leo Tolstoy. For refusing to bear arms, Iziumchenko was sentenced to two years in a penal battalion. This is his story, translated from its publication in a Russian-language brochure in England in 1905
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