Anton Chekhov,Anthony Phillips,Rosamund Bartlett,Luba Terpak,Michael Terpak
THE BLEAK SIBERIAN WILDERNESS, 1890,The ship had run aground. But lucky chance the ,Herald, was also stranded -- with a band on board, so there was an excellent party. This was a high point of Chekhov's great journey through Russia's wilderness. He was to share a cabin with an opium-smoking Chinese man, learn why Japanese ladies were famed for their sexual prowess and witness vicious punishments in the desolate wasteland of Russia's penal colony.
Travel,Nonfiction,Cultural,Russia,Autobiography,Memoir,Literature,Russian Literature,Classics,History,Literature,19th Century,Adventure
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire