POPULATION, CLASS STRUCTURE AND SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY OF THE EXILED PARTICIPANTS OF THE UPRISING IN 1863-1864 IN SIBERIA
The issues of determining the number and class composition of the exiled participants of the uprising in 1863-1864 are considered on the basis of native, Russian and Polish historiography, as well as a source base. It is noted that the structure of the exiles is represented by all major groups of the population and has a number of features. On the one hand, it includes groups of the population that lived in the territory of the Belarusian-Lithuanian provinces in the second half of the nineteenth century, exactly noblemen, freemen, clergy, bourgeois and peasants. On the other hand, privileged classes dominate in the number of people who were sentenced to exile. The servants of the Catholic Church mainly represent people of the spiritual rank among the exiles, the number of Orthodox priests is insignificant. There were identified a number of factors that were taken into account when choosing a location for the exiles in the Siberian region. The principles of convicts' distribution between the provinces of Western and Eastern Siberia are determined taking into account the exiles' type and class membership. In addition, it is possible to note high concentration of political exiles in Western Siberia in comparison with the Eastern one