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People: Andrés de Santa Cruz
Topic: Inca Empire, Spanish Conquest of the
Location: Sela (Edom) Tafilah Governorate Jordan

A Russian court had sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky …

Years: 1849 - 1849
December

A Russian court had sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death, for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle, on November 16, 849.

Facing a firing squad on December 23, the group members are reprieved at the last moment, and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.