"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.
