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The first part of the book; letters Chekhov wrote during his journey across Russia to Sakhalin Island, was interesting and amusing. The second part, details of the life of the people on Sakhalin Island which was a penal colony where convicts and exiles were sent, was not enjoyable but bleak and dark. The island was a sort of precursor to the Gulags. Chekhov was highlighting this place so as to change things for the better but much worse in Russian history was to come.
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