Doroshevich, V. M. 1864-1922.
Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / [electronic resource] : translated and annotated by Andrew A. Gentes. - London ; New York, N.Y. : Anthem Press, 2009. - xxxii, 477 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 Heimbr�uck -- 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).
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Prisons--History.--Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�)
Forced labor--History.--Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�)
Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�, Russia)--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
HV9715.15.Z8 / S25313 2009eb
365/.34
Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / [electronic resource] : translated and annotated by Andrew A. Gentes. - London ; New York, N.Y. : Anthem Press, 2009. - xxxii, 477 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 Heimbr�uck -- 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).
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Prisons--History.--Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�)
Forced labor--History.--Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�)
Sakhalin (Sakhalinska�i�a oblast�, Russia)--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
HV9715.15.Z8 / S25313 2009eb
365/.34