Books by Andrew A. Gentes

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russiäs largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890.

This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. It convoyed some 20,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of Poland and the Western Provinces across the Urals to locations as far away as Iakutsk, and assigned them to penal labor or forced settlement.

Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile.