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Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin Island was used by Imperial Russia as a penal colony and place of exile for criminals and political prisoners. This album contains photographs taken in the 1890s that provide rare glimpses of Sakhalin's settlements and prisons and the native peoples, prisoners, exiles, and guards who inhabited the island. The photographer is believed to have been Innokentii Ignat'evich Pavlovskii (1855--?), The manager of the telegraph station at Dui