seven o’clock in the morning
At each telegraphic station the clerks transmitted messages delivered to them , delaying for State dispatches alone . Thus far , then , Michael 's journey had been accomplished satisfactorily . The courier of the Czar had in no way been impeded ; and , if he could only get on to Krasnoiarsk , which seemed the farthest point attained by Feofar-Khan 's Tartars , he knew that he could arrive at Irkutsk , before them . The day after the two carriages had left Ekaterenburg they reached the small town of Toulouguisk at seven o'clock in the morning , having covered two hundred and twenty versts , no event worthy of mention having occurred . The same evening , the 22d of July , they arrived at Tioumen . Tioumen , whose population is usually ten thousand inhabitants , then contained double that number . This , the first industrial town established by the Russians in Siberia , in which may be seen a fine metal-refining factory and a bell foundry , had never before presented such an animated appearance .