Part I, Chapter 32, The Stolypin Coach Summary and Analysis

In Part I, Chapter 32, Ginzburg and the others are taken by trail to Yaroslavl Prison. Ginzburg again meets Carola Heintschke. Julia Karepova is also on the train. Near the River Volga, the relief Black Maria fails to show up to transport the prisoners, and they have ten happy minutes of seeing the sky and the land around them. At last an open truck arrives to bring them to the solitary block of the prison, isolated and surrounded by high walls.

Ginzburg will be at Yaroslavl for a little more than two years.

Ginzburg recounts how, because of a delay in the truck system, she and the other prisoners enjoy ten minutes of simply being outside. The simple things that free men take for granted -such as being outside -are valued highly...