North to Narym

Just over 80 years ago, Joseph Stalin was exiled  to Narym, on Siberia’s Ob river. Recently, Jessica Jacobson retraced his steps, and those of the countless thousands whom Stalin exiled there ...

7:10 am.

In front of the Tomsk riverboat terminal, a dozen or so passengers shiver in a chilly July breeze. They look out onto a smooth, still Tom river and up at a quilted grey sky.