The Settlement of Mikhaylovka, Populated by Convicts Who had Finished Their Prison Term...1880-1899 Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
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The Settlement of Mikhaylovka, Populated by Convicts Who had Finished Their Prison Term...1880-1899 Creator: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
The Settlement of Mikhaylovka, Populated by Convicts Who had Finished Their Prison Term, Seven Miles from the Aleksandrovsk Post, 1880-1899. From an album created on Sakhalin Island in the 1890s. Sakhalin was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony and place of exile for criminals and political prisoners. Between 1869 and 1906, more than 30, 000 inmates and exiles endured the harsh conditions of the forced-labor colony on the island. The album contains photographs that provide rare glimpses of Sakhalin's settlements and prisons and the prisoners, exiles, and guards who inhabited the island. Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer and medical doctor, spent three months on Sakhalin in 1890, where he extensively researched the plight of the prisoners and the native population. The publication of his Sakhalin Island in 1895 highlighted the depravity of the situation in this remote corner of Russia and led to public protests that helped bring about the closure of the penal colony. National Library of Russia
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Anton Chekhov Chekhov Anton Convict Convicts Exile Exiled Forced Labour Hard Labour Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky Innokenty Pavlovsky Island Pavlovsky Innokenty Ignatievich Penal Colony Penal Servitude Prison Camp Punishing Punishment Sakhalin Island Sakhalin Sakhalinskaya Oblast Russia Siberia Siberian
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