The drinking dens and gaming tables of Irkutsk were as notorious in eighteenth-century Russia as those of Deadwood would become in nineteenth-century America. The archives of the Irkutsk criminal court record at least one murder every day.
O. Matthews, Glorious Misadventures (2013), 33
Monday, 22 December 2025
The archives of the Irkutsk criminal court record at least one murder every day
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