# Notes from the House of the Dead serialised, exposing Omsk katorga

Date: 1862

## The fact

Zapiski iz myortvogo doma (Notes from the House of the Dead), drawn from Omsk prison, was published in Vremya in 1860–62. Fictional frame does not erase the testimony claim.

## Context

Tsarist censorship still sat on the magazine. Shared with Mikhail Dostoyevsky as editor-brother. Justice path: making katorga readable. Infect crowding and flogging sit in the same book and are neighbouring rows, not twins of the publication act.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The book is not the arrest and not the mock execution. Mixed effects of Notes from the House of the Dead serialised, exposing Omsk katorga are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Gutenberg House of the Dead at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 is a public English. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky independently treats the prison book. Goslitmuz at https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ is the archival neighbourhood.

Official or archival record: The House of the Dead — English public-domain text (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Prison testimony in print is a justice path of high confidence and moderate weight. It did not abolish katorga. Mixed: it can aestheticise suffering.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: House of the Dead published by 1862. Not established: a unique Omsk death table in this date field. Distinct from the 1850 arrival at Omsk. Vremya serial of katorga, 1860–62 close, testimony not a statute, not 22 December 1849. Official https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 is not independent https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument. Vremya serial of katorga, 1860–62 close, testimony not a statute, not 22 December 1849. Official https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 is not independent https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument. Vremya serial of katorga, 1860–62 close, testimony not a statute, not 22 December 1849. Official https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 is not independent https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky. Later UNESCO listings and films are not this lifetime instrument.

Shared responsibility is part of Notes from the House of the Dead serialised, exposing Omsk katorga. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1862-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: https://factrail.ai/people/fyodor-dostoyevsky

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-house-of-the-dead