Sahalin

About Sahalin we are both mistaken, but you probably more than I.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

On the Amur steamer going to Sahalin, there was a convict with fetters on his legs who had murdered his wife.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

I would say that we ought to go to places like Sahalin to worship as the

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Please don't build any literary hopes on my Sahalin trip.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

By the way, I had the patience to make a census of the whole Sahalin population.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

She married the artist N., a nice but tedious man who wants at all costs to travel with me to Sahalin to sketch.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

A gang of convicts were sent to the mine from the Voevodsky prison, the grimmest and most forbidding of all the prisons in Sahalin.

The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Sahalin, but she had been sent to live with some ex-convict in a far away settlement; there was no news of her except that once a settler who had come to the Voevodsky Prison told Yakov that Dashutka had three children.

The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

In the Gulf of Tartary the weather is liable to violent changes in the course of half an hour, and then the shores of Sahalin are dangerous.

The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

I have nothing in my head or on paper except Sahalin.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882