Russia's penal colony in the Far East
By: a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" ; translated and annotated by Andrew A. Gentes.
Contributors: Gentes, Andrew Armand, 1964-
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843313090
Subjects: Prisons -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) -- History; Forced labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) -- History; Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) -- Description and travel
Work titles: Sakhalin.
Table of contents: title: Portraits of Sakhalin; title: First impressions; title: The infirmary; title: The katorga cemetery; title: A day in prison; title: The chains prison; title: The free prison; title: Workshops; title: "Aid station"; title: The women's prison; title: The isolators; title: "Reformed"; title: Two odessans; title: The murderers (a married couple); title: Grebeniuk and his homestead; title: Paklin (from my notebook); title: Settlements (the exile-settlers); title: The female cohabitant; title: The male cohabitant; title: Those who've voluntarily followed; title: The homeowners; title: Reztsov; title: Freemen on Sakhalin; title: The katorga theater; title: Katorga actors; title: The brodiaga Sokolsky; title: Crimes in Korsakovsk district; title: Departure; title: Real katorga; title: The capital of Sakhalin; title: Aleksandrovsk post; title: Sentenced to penal labor; title: Who runs katorga?; title: Prison wardens; title: The death penalty; title: Executioners; title: Corporal punishments; title: Katorga's ways; title: Matvey's trouble; title: The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky; title: Katorga types; title: Initiation into the penal laborers; title: Educated persons in katorga; title: Talma on Sakhalin; title: The card game; title: Katorga's laws; title: The language of katorga; title: Katorga songs; title: Katorga and religion; title: Sectarians on Sakhalin Island; title: Criminals and crimes; title: Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin); title: Katorga labors of a Konovalova; title: The most unfortunate of women; title: Voluntary followers; title: Natives of Sakhalin Island; title: Golden hand; title: Poluliakhov; title: A famous Moscow murderer; title: The specialist; title: Cannibals; title: The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück; title: Landsberg; title: The grandfather of Russian katorga; title: The apostate; title: Katorga's aristocrat; title: The plebeian; title: The parricide; title: Shkandyba; title: Hired murderers; title: The suicide; title: The frenzied; title: The educated man; title: Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface); title: Mentally ill criminals; title: Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).