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Post Aleksandrovsky
also: Пост Александровский, Post Aleksandrovsky, Sakhalin
The administrative post on Sakhalin Island (present-day Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky) that served as Chekhov's mailing address during his 1890 journey and census of the penal colony.
Reading notes
- To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 April 1890. Moscow. §3 My address: Post Aleksandrovsky, on the island of Sakhalin.
Post Aleksandrovsky (present-day Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky) was the administrative center of the Sakhalin penal colony and Chekhov's base for the census he conducted there in 1890; see and. This letter is written on the eve of his departure from Moscow, days before the overland journey across Siberia that would occupy him through the summer.