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Chapter 14, Mother and Son.

Omsk is the official capital of western Siberia. It is not the most important city of the government

of that name, for Tomsk has more inhabitants and is larger, but it is at Omsk that the governor

general of this, the first half of Asiatic Russia, resides. Omsk, properly so-called, is composed of two distinct towns, one which is

exclusively inhabited by the authorities and officials, the other more especially devoted to the

Siberian merchants, although indeed the trade of the town is of small importance. The city has about

12,000 to 13,000 inhabitants. It is defended by walls,

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