Antique book Sakhalin 1903. Doroshevich. V.M. Sytin Publishing House. In two parts. Ch1: 438 p. Ch2: 200 p. The first edition of the 1903 book. A rare knee-deep publishing twist. The book describes the Sakhalin way of life and order, inhuman atrocities of the convicts themselves and no less terrible actions of those who managed the life and death of convicts. The book clearly describes the psychological portraits of colorful criminals (such as Sonka Golden Pen) and officials. This book can rightly be considered the best guide to the study of the criminal world of the 19th century. SAHALIN: Island of despair. Island of lawlessness. Dead island! - as its employees call it on Sakhalin. The island is a prison. If you look at the map of Asia, you will see in the right corner stretching along the shore, indeed, something like a monster, opening its mouth and as if ready to swallow lying opposite Matsmay. This is an uninhabited island. It is separated from the earth by the Tatar Strait, the most violent, violent, wayward, evil strait in the world. By the strait, where in winter the zgi is not visible in the snow, and in summer the storms are replaced by thick fogs, so thick that among this white veil the top of the mast of its own steamer can hardly be imagined. Sakhalin is a harsh and cold island. Its rocky coast is licked by a cold, northern current, which in time immemorial broke through the Tatar Strait. Here is a harsh, fierce winter. Here for weeks the purg continues, twisting huge snowstorms, falls asleep on the roof of the house. Here, the bleak winter is like autumn. This is what is called Sakhalin climate. First impressions of Sakhalin Island: The first impression is always the strongest. On the shore dug people. The sea of what? Two impressions were pressing, rots, lead were lying on the soul. They are still depressing. One of them concerns, in fact, the path to Sakhalin. Our ship, which was carrying convicts from Odessa, seemed to me a huge barge, which are usually used in seaside cities for export to the sea of garbage. And these gray on the shore Sakhalin posts and settlements seemed to me simply colossal places of landfills. The second impression concerns Sakhalin. The same servile labor, the same people who have no rights, humiliating punishments, the same pre-reform order, endless paper production of all kinds of affairs, the same view of man as living equipment, the same order by man at will, cohabitation, concluded as marriages under serfdom, not at will, not by attraction, but by order, the view of many on hard labor. Doroshevych V.M. Sakhalin Island 1903