Word: chekhovs
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...Arguably, the first traveler to willingly visit?and leave?the island was Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who came in 1890 to study life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...first?or second?bottle, try to get to Yuzhno's popular local brewery in the center of town. Higher-minded pursuits include the Sakhalin regional museum (housed in the Imperial Japanese Government Offices dating from when the Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin from 1905-45), the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chekhov Theater, street markets selling everything from wild berries to furs, and Gagarin Park, complete with mountain backdrop, a small train and a pristine lake...
...morning of my final day in Sakhalin, still reeling from excessive exercise of the liver, I boarded the Eins Soya ferry at Korsakov for the five-and-a-half-hour trip across the Sea of Okhotsk to Wakkanai, Japan. Chekhov, too, intended to take a boat to Japan from Sakhalin, but a raging cholera outbreak on the Japanese side caused the good doctor to cancel his trip. I soon passed out in a deck chair for the duration of the ferry ride?but not before musing that, one day, return journeys to Sakhalin might even be fashionable...
These thrillers won't be chosen for the National Film Registry of great movies; as Enough director Michael Apted says, "This ain't Chekhov." They may not always pass the plausibility test. But these films do let audiences see top actresses playing strong characters. "People want to root for their favorite female stars," Foster says. "Audiences don't want a woman just to be the sister-of, daughter-of, wife-of. This proves they're not only open to, but absolutely behind, the idea of a woman going through some terrible danger and finding the gumption and the brawn...
...that the events are exaggerated versions of things that happened to them or people they knew and that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...