The article discusses a mortal plot of the novel «The House of the Dead», which takes place in accordance with the author’s idea of spiritual resurrection through suffering. According to Dostoevsky, Siberia is a space of death (embodied in the form of prison), passing through which, his characters come to life. Siberia is a soil that receives a «fallen grain» and gives birth to a new
«fruit». The motif of resurrection through Siberia is being developed in a number of plots by Dostoevsky, which is indicative of the motif`s functioning in the Siberian text of the author. In the journalistic discourse in accordance with the historiosophical concept of pochvennichestvo by Dostoevsky, Siberia obtains the meaning of revival topos not only of an individual but of the entire nation.