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Title: Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin Island

Written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / Translated by Bae Dae-hwa
Northeast Asian History Foundation | 148mm x 225mm | 576 pages | KRW 18,000 | February 2013
ISBN 978-89-6187-299-7 93910

Contents

Translator's Preface

Notes: Sakhalin Island and Seagulls

Part 1 In Siberia

Part 2 Sakhalin Island - From the travelogue

I. Nikolayevsk, Lake Baikal, Fronge Cape, Sakhalin Peninsula, Laperuz, Brauton, Kruzenshtern and Nebelskoi, Japanese Researchers, Jaore Cape, Tatar Bank, De-Kastri

II. Brief Geography, Arrival at Northern Sakhalin, Fire, Dock, Town, Meal at Mr. L's Residence, Acquaintance, General Kononovichi, State Governor's Visit, Meal and Lighting

III. Survey, What's on the Statistics Card, What I Asked and What I Was Answered, The Cabin and Its Residents, The Exiles' Opinion on the Survey

IV. Duika River, Alexandrovsk Basin, Alexandrovska Free Village (Slovodka), Tramp Krashiv, Alexandrovsk Camp, The Camp's Past, Nomad Tent Village, Paris in Sakhalin

V. Alexandrovsk Prison for Exiles, Community Room, Prisoners in Shackles, Golden Hand, Golden Hand, Toilet, Casino (Майдан), Forced Labor in Alexandrovsk, Servant, Workshops

VI. Yegor's Story

VII. Lighthouse, Korsakov Town, Dr. P. I. Suvrunenko's Collection, Weather Station, The Climate of Alexandrovsk District, Novomikhaylovka Town, Pokin, Former Executioner Tersky, Krasunui-Yar Town, Butakovo Town

VIII. Arkai River, Arkovo Guard Post, First/Second/Third Arkovo Towns, Arkovo Basin, West Coastal Towns: Mgachi, Tangi, Hoe, Trambaus, Viahutui, Bangi, Tunnel, Cable House, Due, Cells for Family, Due Prison, Mine, Voyevodskaya

IX. Tuim or Tuimi, Captain Boshnyak, Polyakov, Berkuni-Armudan, Nizuni-Armudan, Derbinskoe Town, Walk in Tuimi, Uskovo Town, Gypsies, Walk in the Taiga Woods, Boskresenskoe Town

X. Luikovskoe Town, Igot Prison, M. N. Galkin-Braski Observatory, Palevo Town, Mikryukov Town, Balzui Town and Rongari Town, Malo-Tuimovo Town, Andreye-Ivanovskoe Town

XI. Designed District, Stone Age, Was There Free Colonization?, The Gilyaks, Their Population, Appearance, Physique, Food, Clothing, Living, Hygienic Conditions, Personality, The Attempt to Make Them Like Russians, The Orochis

XII. Departure for the South, Cheerful Lady, West Coast, Sea Current, Mauka (眞岡), Krylon, Aniwa (亞庭), Korsakov Camp, New Acquaintance, Northeastern Wind, The Climate of South Sakhalin, Korsakov Prison, Fire Engine

XIII. Poro-Ahn-Tomari, Murabiyovsk Camp, First Valley, Second Valley, Third Valley, Solobiyovka Town, Ryutoga Town, Naked Cape Town, Mijulka Town, Larch Town, Homutovka Town, Bolshaya Yelan Town, Bladymirovka Town, Farm or Company, Lugovoye Town, Cabin Village, Birch Village, Cross Village, Bolshoe Takoe Town and Maloe Takoe Town, Galkino-Braskoe Town, Oak Village, Naibuchi, Sea

XIV. Taraika (多來加), Free Citizen Village, Their Failure, The Ainus, Their Distribution, Population, Appearance, Food, Clothing, Living, Custom, The Japanese, Kusun-Kotan, Japanese Consulate

XV. The Householders of Exiles in Imprisonment, Promotion to Migrated Exiles, Choosing the Location for New Towns, Household Management, Co-Owners. Promotion to Farmers, The Migration of Exiles-Turned-Farmers to the Continent, Life in Town, Around the Prison, Population by Place of Birth and Class, Town Power

XVI. The Exiles' Population by Gender, Women Issues, Female Exiles in Imprisonment and Female Migrated Exiles, Common-Law Roommates, Free Women

XVII. Population by Age, The Family Status of Exiles, Marriage, Birth Rate, Children in Sakhalin

XVIII. The Exiles' Work, Farming, Hunting, Fishing, Returning Fish: Salmon and Sardine, Hunting in Prison, Crafts

XIX. The Exiles' Meals, What Do the Prisoners Eat and How Do They Eat it? Clothes, Church, School, Literacy

XX. Free Citizens, NCOs in the Local Army, Prison Guards, Intellectuals

XXI. The Morality and Criminality of Exiles, Hearing and Trial, Punishment, Beating and Whips, Capital Punishment

XXII. Defectors from Sakhalin, Why They Escaped, The Composition of the Defectors by Their Place of Birth, Affiliation, and Other Categories

XXIII. The Rates of Disease and Death for the Exiles, Medical Institutions, Alexandrovsk Hospital

Endnotes

About the Author and the Translator

Index

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