Cultural references The Irtysh River serves as a backdrop in the epilogue of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The GULAG Archipelago, the chapter "The White Kitten" details Georgi Tenno's escape from a camp along this river.
cultural references the irtysh river serves as a backdrop in the epilogue of fyodor dostoyevsky's 1866 novel crime and punishment in aleksandr solzhenitsyn's the gulag archipelago the chapter "the white kitten" details georgi tenno's escape from a camp along this river