About the book: year / The life and everyday life of Jews in the Pale of Settlement is well known from the works of classics of Jewish literature, memoirs, and family legends. We know much less about the lives of those who left their native lands in search of happiness and settled in the inner provinces of the Russian Empire, where the life of Jews was completely different. Even during Ermak’s conquest of Siberia in the 16th century, the history of the Urals mentions a Jewish community with a prayer meeting. Subsequently, Jews began to be exiled to the Urals and Siberia for “service”, “to arable land”, to the mines for various offenses, they also fled here from unrest-ridden Poland.