From Siberia. Sakhalin Island
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From Siberia. Sakhalin Island
19.99 €
15.99 €
In 1890, A.P. Chekhov made a long journey to Sakhalin, a place of penal servitude and exile. The writer's journey from Moscow through Siberia took 82 days.
Impressions from Siberian roads, people, and meetings formed the basis of his diary notes "From Siberia", and the result of his three-month stay on Sakhalin was not the book "Sakhalin Island" - a piercing description of the life and everyday life of exiled convicts, prison guards, free settlers and the local population.
During the long journey across the entire country, Chekhov sent detailed letters to his family, acquaintances, and the publisher A.S. Suvorin, containing descriptions of his road adventures, portraits of Siberians and his fellow travelers, as well as caustic, truly Chekhovian, assessments of what was happening. The present edition includes these letters, as well as illustrations: engravings from the two-volume work Siberia and the Exile System by J. Cannon, who traveled around Russia in 1895–1896, and photographs by the head of the telegraph station in the Sakhalin settlement of Due, I. I. Pavlovsky, which he gave to Chekhov along with his Travel Diary in 1890.
Impressions from Siberian roads, people, and meetings formed the basis of his diary notes "From Siberia", and the result of his three-month stay on Sakhalin was not the book "Sakhalin Island" - a piercing description of the life and everyday life of exiled convicts, prison guards, free settlers and the local population.
During the long journey across the entire country, Chekhov sent detailed letters to his family, acquaintances, and the publisher A.S. Suvorin, containing descriptions of his road adventures, portraits of Siberians and his fellow travelers, as well as caustic, truly Chekhovian, assessments of what was happening. The present edition includes these letters, as well as illustrations: engravings from the two-volume work Siberia and the Exile System by J. Cannon, who traveled around Russia in 1895–1896, and photographs by the head of the telegraph station in the Sakhalin settlement of Due, I. I. Pavlovsky, which he gave to Chekhov along with his Travel Diary in 1890.
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