The agrarian population was primarily 'serf' class, fully owned and directed to farm according to the aristocracy and wholly without any means of self support for the two years long journey. Had the Tsar proclaimed 'Freedom' to any jumping at the opportunity there was no Russian merchant fleet to transport them, nor money to hire passage from another nation's ships.
There would have been no food supply to provision them for the long overland trek, nor horses to hire in sufficient quantity to make the trip - Horses actually are not great for long range long duration travel, they require significant down time to feed and rest or they die, and this is why during the expansion into 'the West' of the US stagecoach stops and towns were built at increments reasonable to provide a place to change teams of horses. Over the long haul, bullocck/oxen or cattle are more durable. They require less care in feeding and can travel while they eat but they are not nearly as fast, and over trip of this distance you run out of food for the people quite quickly if they do not have the skills required to hunt game while on the move. The serf class had been kept from having any such skill, and all of the game was technically reserved for the aristocracy as 'sport'. So, no, they couldn't have eaten wild boar and caribou on the way east across Siberia. At least not at any scale.
The concept of 'a road' for Okhosk is laughable - more like a trail across bogs and tundra, through forests full of wild animals (bears and wolves who really like to eat horses) and with sub zero temperatures. when it's warm enough to not loose a foot to frost bite while hiking, the ground is so wet you can sink to your waist in it.
The 'outgroups' wishing to be out of Tsarist Russia at the time would have been middle-wealth aristocracy with the means to travel, and a growing disaffection with the mismanagement of the national resources' under the growing centrism of the Empire. The agrarian populations had swelled, the three crop rotation scheme had caused a dramatic reduction in per capita grain and food production, and the revenues above subsistence for aristocratic farms was dramatically falling. Those aristocratic land and serf owning families which were not directly in the Tsars circle, and other such outgroups had a path out: Europe in Vienna, Paris, and Prussia and from there into the American Midwest.
Several cities in the Minnesota region have significant populations founded through that movement path, including the last Polish and Tsarist connected aristocratic households such as the three sisters from the Polish-Lithuanian House of Czartoryski who helped build St Mary's hospital in Duluth. (side note: there was no Poland on the maps from 1795 to 1918 - so during those years they would have been seen as 'Russian' emigres even though proudly aware of their own Polish and Lithuanian heritage)
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The agrarian population was primarily 'serf' class, fully owned and directed to farm according to the aristocracy and wholly without any means of self support for the two years long journey. Had the Tsar proclaimed 'Freedom' to any jumping at the opportunity there was no Russian merchant fleet to transport them, nor money to hire passage from another nation's ships.
There would have been no food supply to provision them for the long overland trek, nor horses to hire in sufficient quantity to make the trip - Horses actually are not great for long range long duration travel, they require significant down time to feed and rest or they die, and this is why during the expansion into 'the West' of the US stagecoach stops and towns were built at increments reasonable to provide a place to change teams of horses. Over the long haul, bullocck/oxen or cattle are more durable. They require less care in feeding and can travel while they eat but they are not nearly as fast, and over trip of this distance you run out of food for the people quite quickly if they do not have the skills required to hunt game while on the move. The serf class had been kept from having any such skill, and all of the game was technically reserved for the aristocracy as 'sport'. So, no, they couldn't have eaten wild boar and caribou on the way east across Siberia. At least not at any scale.
The concept of 'a road' for Okhosk is laughable - more like a trail across bogs and tundra, through forests full of wild animals (bears and wolves who really like to eat horses) and with sub zero temperatures. when it's warm enough to not loose a foot to frost bite while hiking, the ground is so wet you can sink to your waist in it.
The 'outgroups' wishing to be out of Tsarist Russia at the time would have been middle-wealth aristocracy with the means to travel, and a growing disaffection with the mismanagement of the national resources' under the growing centrism of the Empire. The agrarian populations had swelled, the three crop rotation scheme had caused a dramatic reduction in per capita grain and food production, and the revenues above subsistence for aristocratic farms was dramatically falling. Those aristocratic land and serf owning families which were not directly in the Tsars circle, and other such outgroups had a path out: Europe in Vienna, Paris, and Prussia and from there into the American Midwest.
Several cities in the Minnesota region have significant populations founded through that movement path, including the last Polish and Tsarist connected aristocratic households such as the three sisters from the Polish-Lithuanian House of Czartoryski who helped build St Mary's hospital in Duluth. (side note: there was no Poland on the maps from 1795 to 1918 - so during those years they would have been seen as 'Russian' emigres even though proudly aware of their own Polish and Lithuanian heritage)