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Chapter 8 - Exiles’ hidden sorrows • The issue of Sakhalin’s sick • The female penal laborer’s life of fear • The fate of two Marˊias • A cousin’s spouse • A romance interrupted for ten years • The chancery’s mistake • The brides are delivered by steamer • Undeserved insults • The two Marˊias’ arrival in Vladivostok
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Chapter 9 - Summer jobs • Surveying Tym Valley • A disputed issue • Mikhail Semënovich Mitsul • Sakhalin contrasts • The Tym Valley’s climate • Humidity • Clear air • Rarely observed planets and the zodiacal world • Climatic variations on Sakhalin
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Chapter 16 - The situation for educated people on the island • A Sakhalin family • Deceptive expectations • Drunkenness • The disbursement of vodka • Spirits • A guard’s revelry • Sakhalin’s sobriety measures
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Chapter 9 - Vladivostok under military alert • Rumors of war • Sergeant-Major Kobchik • His punishment • Penal laborer military detachments • Exiles in the Crimean campaign • Arsenii Kobchik’s death • Stories about military campaigns • The tsar’s inspection • A Sakhalin passport • A new obstacle to leaving
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Chapter 1 - Invitation to a seaside stroll • The steamer Prince Shakhovskoi • In the Tatar Strait • Stormy weather • The messengers’ concern • The mainland’s coast • De-Kastri Bay • A chance to escape • Inspecting a settlement • Military vessels’ anchors and hulls
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Chapter 1 - The new status of exile-settler • Decline in air quality • News of the governor-general’s arrival • Meeting Baron Korf in Rykovsk • The arrival of N. I. Grodekov • Sakhalin flags • The general’s simple arrangements • His tour of district settlements • Submitting petitions • A lack of administrators
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Chapter 1 - First impressions of the Sakhalin coast • Time aboard the steamer on the run to Aleksandrovsk Post • Transfer of penal laborers to the wharf • Prisoners’ baggage • A view of Sakhalin’s shorelines • First encounter with Warden L— — • Anticipating dinner • Along the road to Aleksandrovsk Post • In the prison yard • Distribution to the barracks
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Chapter 3 - Preparing the new church for Easter • A passion for work • My importance as a church headman • Building a garden • Botanical excursions • Leaving the prison • Departing comrades’ situations • Butakov’s dangerousness • His renown on the island
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PART II
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Chapter 4 - Women on Sakhalin • Exiled penal laborers • Abolition of corporal punishment • The female penal laborer’s unbridledness and showiness • The female penal laborer’s preference for freedom • Legal wives • Shamelessness • The card game • The chorister O— —
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Chapter 6 - Aboard the steamer Shooter • Sakhalin’s west coast • Mauka Bay • Cape Crillon and danger rock • Wreck of the steamer Kostroma • Prisoners in a locked hold • Saving the carriage • A human victim
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Chapter 2 - Guests of the military commander • Visiting a lighthouse • The Sakhalin penal laborers’ crossing • Leaving De-Kastri • On the sea at night • Fog • The Sakhalin coast • Returning to Aleksandrovsk Post
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Chapter 1 - A new assignment • M. A. Krzhizhevskaia • Her work • The meteorological station • Secret philanthropy
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Chapter 13 - Leaving Sakhalin • Penal laborers building the Ussuri Railroad • Laborers’ complaints • Difficulty on the Amur • The development of a steamship line • The pay office • Drunken sailors • Sakhalintsy’s thinnest praise • Depending on the katorga island • Definitively breaking from Sakhalin
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Foreword
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Chapter 12 - L— — ’s retirement and departure • Warden N. N. Ia— — v • Flowers, poetry, and a reprisal from prisoners • Tymovsk District’s expansion • A complicated business • Assigning exiles to Sakhalin • At the clapboard hut, turn right • What Butakov knew • No return from a graveyard
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Contents
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Chapter 8 - Manué Post • The Ainu of Sakhalin and Matsumae • In the La Pérouse Strait • Seabirds • Sea lions on Danger Rock • Totomosiri Island • Return to Aleksandrovsk Post • In Rykovsk again
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Chapter 12 - The governor’s new request • Difficult connections • Invaluable victims • Aboard the steamer Velox • My travel companions • Loading of coal by penal laborers • Double supervision • The war against the secret gift of liquor • Communication by water • A lack of restraint • Setting sail • “Forward yo!”
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Chapter 3 - Dinner • An alarming noise in the canteen • The failed attempt on Warden L— — ’s life • Prisoners’ malevolence • A penal laborer’s death by gunfire • A walk outside the prison • Assignment to Tymovsk District • Administrators’ opinions regarding the wounding of Warden L— — • A meeting with him
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