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Why was ill luck that befell Aksionov on his way to the fair?

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During the night, a fellow merchant has his throat slit; the next morning, Aksionov is accused of the crime and of stealing twenty-thousand rubles from the merchant. Even though he is innocent, Aksionov is flogged and sentenced to twenty-six years of hard labor in Siberia.

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