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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Personal morality’s importance in lifting a man • Comparison of a Russian to foreigners • Our peasant’s humiliating position • The exiled penal laborer Shalaev • Refusal to work • A voluntary loss of sight • What attention does for an exile • Good people on Sakhalin • Reasons for being sentenced...
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Sakhalintsy in Vladivostok • The difficulty of dissociating oneself from the island of penal laborers • The region’s gray fogs • S. G. Iurkevich’s letter • Ocean industry • No harvest due to drought • First bees on Sakhalin • Robbery and murder • The agricultural colony’s difficult circumstances...
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