institution
Voevodsk Prison
also: Воеводская тюрьма, Voevodskaya prison
Described in the story as "the most wretched and severe of all the prisons on Sakhalin," a real katorga (penal-labor) prison near Aleksandrovsk on Sakhalin's west coast, documented by Chekhov in his 1890 investigation of the island; Yakov Ivanych serves his sentence there after being convicted of Matvei's murder.
Reading notes
- The Murder §150 the Voevodsk prison
A real katorga prison near Aleksandrovsk on Sakhalin, which Chekhov describes elsewhere as one of the island's worst; his choice to send Yakov Ivanych there specifically, rather than to an unnamed or invented facility, roots the story's final part in the same documented penal system covered in his nonfiction account of the island.