About the book: 2020 / Sakhalin Island has become synonymous with the phenomenon of hard labor in Russia. Three journeys, three time slices, three stories told. 1890 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's journey from Moscow to Sakhalin. 1967 - the journey of my grandfather Vladimir Andreevich Privezentsev on a motorcycle from Sakhalin to Leningrad. 2015 - my motorcycle trip from Sakhalin to St. Petersburg. These are three stories about how a country, “bruised by space,” as Nikolai Berdyaev aptly put it, treats its “serf” citizens. A country in which its citizens owe and owe from birth brutally suppresses counter-questions about what the country owes them?