In Exile

"In Exile" is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov.

The story was inspired by Chekhov's journey through Siberia and his stay in Sakhalin and, in particular, two episodes of this trip. On 4 (or 5) May 1890 he crossed the Ishim River on a ferry and then on 7 May bad weather prevented him from crossing Irtysh, so that he had to spend the night in the ferrymen's izba. Of these two instances he informed both his relatives (in a 16 May letter) and his regular correspondent, the children writer Maria Vladimirovna Kiselyova. Both were mentioned in his Po Sibiri (Through Siberia) set of sketches.

classic literature, fiction, short stories, 19th century, english