Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics)

Sakhalin Island (Alma Classics)

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 Chekhovâ€™s motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposÃ©, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhovâ€™s career and on Russian society.
Country USA
Manufacturer Alma Books
Binding Kindle Edition
IsAdultProduct 1
ReleaseDate 2017-03-28
Format Kindle eBook

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