, Russian Federation
The article is devoted to the main trends in the development of convict labor in provincial and county prisons of Nizhny Novgorod province in the late XIX — early XX centuries. On the basis of unpublished office documents, statistical and reference materials, pre-revolutionary periodicals, the complex process of introducing prisoners’ labor in penitentiary institutions of the Nizhny Novgorod Region is shown. With the help of indicators of the total annual income from prison work, the place of the Nizhny Novgorod province among other regions of the Russian Empire was revealed.
convict labor, prisons of the Nizhny Novgorod province, economic work of prisoners,
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