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In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

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Publisher
Alma Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9780714545615
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Letters
Index
Literature
SAKHALIN
ISLAND

Organizations 
for 
1892 
and 
1893’.) 
Medicine 
on 
Sakhalin 
works 
out 
as 
very 
expensive, 
yet 
meanwhile 
the 
infirmary 
is 
disinfected 
“by 
fumigation 
with 
chlorine”, 
there 
is 
no 
ventilation, 
and 
the 
soup 
which 
was 
prepared 
in 
front 
of 
me 
for 
the 
patients 
at 
Alexandrovsk 
tasted 
extremely 
salty, 
since 
it 
had 
been 
boiled 
up 
from 
salt 
beef. 
Until 
very 
recently, 
allegedly 
“due 
to 
non-delivery 
of 
the 
requisite 
number 
of 
items 
of 
crockery 
and 
because 
of 
the 
lack 
of 
order 
in 
the 
kitchen”, 
the 
patients 
were 
fed 
from 
the 
communal 
prison 
cooking 
pot 
(Directive 
of 
the 
Governor 
of 
the 
Island 
no. 
66, 
1890). 
(
CHEKHOV
’
S
NOTE
)
p. 
322, 
Pravaz 
syringes
: 
A 
Pravaz 
syringe 
was 
a 
syringe 
designed 
by 
the 
French 
doctor 
Charles 
Gabriel 
Pravaz 
(1791–1833) 
to 
treat 
subcu-
taneous 
infection. 
Extra 
Material
on
Anton 
Chekhov’s
Sakhalin 
Island

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