Polish exiles

Over the XIX-th century exiled Polish lived in Yalutorovsk. The first exiles were participants of the rebellion in Poland 1830-1831. Among them was one of the leaders of the Society of the United Slaves in Ukraine earl Gothard Sobanski. Sobanski was a great friend of the Decembrists living in Yalutorovsk. He participated in opening the school organized by I. Yakushkin. Being a talented misician, Sobanski was a frequent guest at the parties held by the Decembrists. The fate of Sobanski was tragic. In 1841 he was killed in his own apartment by a robber. Later mother of Sobanski visited Yalutorovsk to install a gravestone to his tomb, which exists now at the old cemetery. She presented the house of his son to a Decembrist Muravjev-Apostol, who gave it to a large family of farther Stephan Znamenski.

IN the middle of the XIX-th century representatives of the Polish intelligentsia lived in Yalutorovsk having been accused of reading and distribution of forbidden literature. Exiles lived in severe financial circumstances, since it was very difficult for them to find job in Yalutorivsk. After the rebellion in 1863 over a hundred Polish exiles were convoyed to Yalutorovsk. Younger representatives elaborated scheme of escaping away from Siberia. Other exiled reconciled with their fate, and tried to adjust their lives to new conditions. The majority of the exiles were able to come back to their homeland at the end of the XIX-th century. Some of them got completely Russified and stayed in Yalutorovsk.