giving an account of the hardships and sufferings he endured in early life, under what difficulties he acquired his education, the effects of factory labour on his mind and person, the unsuccessful efforts made by him to obtain a livelihood in some other line of life, the comparison he draws between agricultural and manufacturing labourers and other matters relating to the working classes
lived mainly in factory slums close to the factory.19 A typical factory neighborhood in St Petersburg was described as an entire forest of factory chimneys , throwing out clouds of black smoke obscuring the already grey Petersburg sky .