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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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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
Table of contents
- Sakhalin Island
- Note on the Text
- Notes
- Extra Material on Anton Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island
- Anton Chekhov’s Life
- Anton Chekhov’s Works
- Select Bibliography
- Appendices
- A Selection of Chekhov’s Letters
- The First Chapter of Sakhalin Island in Russian