They are all deprived of the right to leave their communities, and are specially fined and locked up in prisons for not fulfilling the strangest demands of the authorities: [...]

Four hundred families, who were deported from their homes and were settled in Tartar and in Georgian villages, had to rent themselves houses and support themselves with their own money, having no land and no income, and are in such hard straits that, in the three years since their deportation, one-fourth of them, especially their old men and children, have died from want and from diseases.

Appeal on Behalf of the Doukhobors (March 19, 1898)

Tolstoy with his grandchildren