This selection comprises 18 letters written mostly from Russia by Father Wincenty Przesmycki to his friends in the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity in Lublin. Their author was sentenced to a period of deportation in the European part of Russia and then moved on to his pastoral outpost in Siberia. Written at large intervals between 1886 and 1907, the letters were posted from Pinega, Archangel, Petersburg, Tobolsk, and Odessa. One letter bears the postmark Jerusalem (the Russian authorities gave Father Przesmycki a permission to go a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1893). The letters are concerned with themes of religious upbring-ing focused on the consolidation of the Christian mindset and spirituality of the members of the Holy Trinity Confraternity. Passages of pastoral reflection and exhortation are interlarded with accounts of his experiences in exile. They constitute a valuable source not only for a biography of a deported priest who made an immense contribution to the Catholic community of Tobolsk but also for the history of the penal deportations of Poles and the history of the Catholic Church in Russia. Father Wincenty Przesmycki was born to a gentry family in Huszcza (Podlasie). He was ordained in the diocese of Lublin and from 1872 resided in Lublin where he was appointed promotor of the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity at the cathedral. In 1886 he was arrested on charges of clandestine ministering to Uniates from the dissolved Greek Catholic church and sentenced to a term of penal deportation at Pinega in the far north of Russia. In 1891 (after serving his sentence) he was appointed parish priest at Tobolsk in Western Siberia. There he had his hands full with social, pastoral and missionary work; he also initiated the construction of a Catholic church. In 1904 he got a permission to return to Poland, but he decided to stay in Russia. In 1913 he moved to Petersburg, and later to a place called Luga. What became of him after 1916 is not known.