 "The House of the Dead", based on his experience in prison, was published in 1861 in the journal "Vremya" ("Time") – it was the first published novel about Russian prisons.Before moving in mid-March to Semipalatinsk, where he was forced to serve in the Siberian Army Corps of the Seventh Line Battalion, Dostoevsky met geographer Pyotr Semyonov and ethnographer Shokan Walikhanuli.Around November 1854, he met Baron Alexander Egorovich Wrangel, an admirer of his books, who had attended the aborted execution.