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Omsk prison katorga, 1850–1854

From 1850 to 1854 Dostoyevsky served katorga in the Omsk fortress prison, fettered unfree labour among convicts. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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From 1850 to 1854 Dostoyevsky served katorga in the Omsk fortress prison, fettered unfree labour among convicts. Prison disease is a neighbouring infect row. No unique flogging census is invented.

Context

Labour path: convict work. Shared with unnamed prisoners. State authorship; his life carries it. Distinct from Semipalatinsk soldiering after 1854.

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

Why it matters

The book’s justice path does not rebate these years.

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

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    Named convict at Omsk fortress prison. The penal office ran the labour. Complex unfree years.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactOmsk prison katorga, 1850–1854
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 1850 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Fyodor DostoyevskyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The House of the Dead — English public-domain textProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently dates Omsk 1850–54. Gutenberg House of the Dead at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 (opens in a new tab) is the later testimony-carrier, not the prison itself. Goslitmuz is the archival neighbourhood.

Established: Omsk katorga 1850–54. Not established: a unique task-list by day. Distinct from the 1862 book and from 1849 Square. Omsk fortress 1850–54, fetters, convict barracks, not the Vremya text and not 22 December. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37536 (opens in a new tab).

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Omsk labour is not the Dead House serial and not Semipalatinsk service. Mixed effects of Omsk prison katorga, 1850–1854 are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Omsk prison katorga, 1850–1854. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1850-01-01 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.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. contributed toFactOmsk prison katorga, 1850–1854
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Omsk prison katorga, 1850–1854. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-omsk-katorga

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-omsk-katorga

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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