Abstract
The article discusses the activities of D. A. Klements - a representative of the revolutionary populism of the 1870s. - as a publicist during his stay in Siberian exile. In the early 1890s he collaborated with the newspaper «Eastern Review», published in Irkutsk. As the head of the East Siberian Division of the Russian Geographical Society, Dmitry Alexandrovich led the scientific department of the newspaper. His articles, feuilletons, book reviews are devoted to the most diverse problems of Siberian life. These are peasant, resettlement issues, the development of mining and gold industry, situation of workers in Siberia, problems of education, health care, the foreign issue, the situation on the Russian-Chinese border, judicial reform in Siberia. While on expeditions, Klements sent travel notes and essays containing information on nature, customs, economy, and culture of the countries bordering Siberia to the «Eastern Review». All the problems he raised were urgent, topical. The articles by D. A. Klemenets reflected his views in the framework of the ideology of revolutionary populism and to some extent contributed to the enlightenment of the education of the Siberian region.
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