Sujet
Prisoners at work, Sakhalin, Russia, 1890s. Artist: Innokenty Ignatievich Pavlovsky
Légende
Prisoners at work, Sakhalin, Russia, 1890s. A large island off the Pacific coast of Siberia, Sakhalin became the site of prison labour camps known as katorga from 1857. In 1891 Russian author Anton Chekhov visited Sakhalin and wrote about the conditions in the camps in his book Sakhalin Island. Found in the collection of the Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House).
Date
1890
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Fine Art Images
Notre référence
HRM19D93_162
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,2Mo (1,4Mo) / 42,4cm x 29,7cm / 5011 x 3503 (300dpi)