we are in the arms cregan located more than two thousand kilometers from moscow the main city which shares the name brief with came russia's capital after the nine hundred seventeen revolution and also helping period gold reserves but it's got a checkered reputation as tom barr discovers. two things in particular it is famous for those are the fate of exiles sent here by the czarist regime along a difficult and dangerous road to get here and prison and forced labor once they arrived the other is a rich military tradition that the city has a military academy established here two hundred years ago has provided very famous officers and generals for the russian and the red armies and it's those themes of examining. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they're reacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia they're going to get its exam years to go there some ways winterreise in thirty years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered their livi