Authors and Copyright

Originally project by CloseUpRussia and Liberty.SU, St.Petersburg

Photographs and Observation Diary © 2014–2020 by Oleg Klimov, Moscow

Historical photographs taken specially for Anton Chekhov’s book Sakhalin Island © 1890–1891 by Innokenty Pavlovsky and Alexander Shcherbak, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
and State Literary Museum, Moscow

Downsides of an Empire © 2022 by Hubert Smeets, Amsterdam
Why and How Anton Chekhov Went to Sakhalin © 2020 by Donald Rayfield, London

The First European on Sakhalin Island © 2020 by René Attema, Harlingen

Translation from Dutch by Martin Cleaver, Amsterdam
Translation from Russian by Olga Afanasieva, Kazan
Russian text editor: Alexandra Mankova, Sakhalin island

Dutch text editor: Hubert Smeets, Amsterdam
English text editor: Martin Cleaver, Amsterdam
Color separation: Vladimir Semenkov, Moscow
Page-proofs: Anastasiya Bruni, Moscow

Digital and online edition: Liberty.SU Web: CalamityIslands.com

Financial support by WE Jansenfonds, Amsterdam

Publisher Liberty.SU Format 22.6×22.6. Circulation 1000 copies
ISBN 978-5-6047801-0-7
Printing House KOPA. Kaunas, Lithuania,
tel. +37037301616, email: [email protected],
Web: kopa.eu

CALAMITY ISLANDS
Sakhalin and the Kurils - terra incognita of a brutal Russian Empire

PAPER VERSION OF THE BOOK

“Here is where the homeland’s morning begins,” advertisement billboards claim romantically, representing the power vertical from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. The many centuries spent and methods used to colonise the islands have, however, made neither Sakhalin nor the Kuril Islands “our Australia”, though in both cases the land was first colonised by convicts at the same time. Why has the hard-labour-based Australia grown into an industrialized country, whereas Sakhalin and the Kurils remain “Calamity Islands”?

 

For Dutch customers only
Calamity Islands is ook verkrijgbaar bij de volgende boekhandels.

Boekhandel Pegasus, Singel 36, 1012 WL Amsterdam
Boekhandel Van Pampus, C. van Eesterenlaan 17, 1019 JK Amsterdam
Boekhandel Zwart op Wit, Utrechtsestraat 149, 1017 VM Amsterdam

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