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Summary

The story concerned a group of Nihilists, members of an extreme revolutionary party in 19th-century Russia, finding nothing to approve of in the constitutional order of things, and was intended to expose the evils of Czarist Russia, where prisoners were ill-treated and arbitrarily deported to Siberia.

In the final scene, the dying heroine, herself one of the exiles, is dragged from the mine-shaft in which she has been forced to work, and thrown into the snow, where she breathes her last.