Russia's penal colony in the Far East : a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" /: a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin". ([2011])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Sakhalin.
• Further Information: Note: Translated and annotated by Andrew A. Gentes.
• Other Names: Doroshevich, V. M (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Introduction: On First Impressions and Lasting Choices, by Andrew A. Gentes; Glossary; Katorga: A Reporter’s Visit to the Sakhalin Penal Colony; Book One; Book Two; Recommended Readings Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? -- Prison wardens -- The death penalty -- Executioners -- Corporal punishments -- Katorga's ways -- Matvey's trouble -- The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky -- Katorga types -- Initiation into the penal laborers -- Educated persons in Katorga -- Talma on Sakhalin -- The card game -- Katorga's laws -- The language of Katorga -- Katorga songs -- Katorga and religion -- Sectarians on Sakhalin Island -- Criminals and crimes -- Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin) -- Katorga labors of a Konovalova -- The most unfortunate of women -- Voluntary followers -- Natives of Sakhalin Island -- Golden hand -- Poluliakhov -- A famous Moscow murderer -- The specialist -- Cannibals -- The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück -- Landsberg -- The grandfather of Russian Katorga -- The apostate -- Katorga's aristocrat -- The plebeian -- The parricide -- Shkandyba -- Hired murderers -- The suicide -- The frenzied -- The educated man -- Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface) -- Mentally ill criminals -- Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the Katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxii, 477 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 365.34; Prisons -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) -- History; Forced labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) -- History; Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) -- Description and travel
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857288721; 0857288725
• Related ISBNs: 9781843313090
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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