num_pages: 128
description: THE BLEAK SIBERIAN WILDERNESS, 1890The ship had run aground. But lucky chance the Herald was also stranded -- with a band on board, so there was an excellent party. This was a high point of Chekhov's great journey through Russia's wilderness. He was to share a cabin with an opium-smoking Chinese man, learn why Japanese ladies were famed for their sexual prowess and witness vicious punishments in the desolate wasteland of Russia's penal colony.
language: English
title: A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
titlecomplete: A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
genres: Classics, Adventure, History, Travel, Russia, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 263
publisher: Penguin Books