From a sociological perspective, an act constitutes a crime when it violates a strong and clear collective sentiment. Yet, in Tsarist Russia, these political exiles did not violate collective sentiment but rather the sentiment of the ruling class led by the Tsar, thus they occupy a rather special position among other types of exiles.
—Arthur Hastings
In this vast and boundless snowy land, the cold wind seems like an uninvited soul, piercing and tearing through every inch of skin.
The wheels of the carriage creak lowly on the heavy snow, echoing with the sound of the horses' hooves, gradually moving further away.
The sun has already slanted westward, staining the endless snowfield with a blood-red hue with its afterglow.
Winter in Russia is as harsh and unfeeling as this land, and today, for those political prisoners being escorted, it is filled with indescribable terror and despair.
At the forefront of the convoy was a Constitutional Soldier Captain in a dark green uniform.
