Editing Józef Piłsudski (section)

===Siberian exile===
While being transported in a prisoners' convoy to Siberia, Piłsudski was held for several weeks at a prison in [[Irkutsk]].{{r|LandauDunlop30_30}} During his stay, another inmate insulted a guard and refused to apologize; Piłsudski and other political prisoners were beaten by the guards for their defiance and Piłsudski lost two teeth. He took part in a subsequent hunger strike until the authorities reinstated political prisoners' privileges that had been suspended after the incident.{{r|Urbank97_62-6}} For his involvement, he was sentenced in 1888 to six months' imprisonment. He had to spend the first night of his incarceration in 40-degree-below-zero Siberian cold; this led to an illness that nearly killed him and health problems that would plague him throughout life.{{r|Urbank97_68-9}}

During his exile, Piłsudski met many ''[[Sybiraks]]'', people who had been resettled (usually by force) to Siberia.{{r|Urbank97_74–7}} He was allowed to work in an occupation of his choosing and tutored local children in mathematics and foreign languages{{r|POleksa04}} (he knew French, German and Lithuanian in addition to Russian and his native Polish; he would later learn English).{{sfn|Jędrzejewicz|Cisek|1994|p=13}} Local officials decided that, as a Polish noble, he was not entitled to the 10-[[Russian ruble|ruble]] pension received by others.{{r|Urbank97_71}}