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MAN TELLS
OF
EXCURSION
TO ROSS PRISON
Visits Russia's Bastile—
Prisoners of Revolu
tion Well Treated
(By Associated Press.)
Petroprad, Srpt. 2fi.—As the result
of"a month's npRotlationn. after which
a decision by Premier Kerensky was
finally aaked, The Associated Pross
correspondent was permitted today
to inspect the notorious Troubetskoi
Baetion of the fortress of Saint Peter
and Saint Paul, the bastile of Petro
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of nihilism and bomb throwers and
here today the most hated adher
ents of the banished autocratic
regime and awaiting the nation's
verdict
In this bastion now are interned
eight exalted culprits. They are
General Rennenkampff, whose record
as a military Judge in 1906, during the
attempted revolution constituted a
"hangman's progress" to Siberia
classed as equalling if not surpassing
the infamies of the notorious Jef
freys: M. Makaroff, who procured the
election of a burglar to the duma
to act as a spy: M. SlkremlefT, ac
cused of serious offenses as chief of
the army motor supply office form
er Minister of Justice J. Chtcheglo
clever, "most corrupt man in Eu
rope" Prince Alexander Dolgorukoff,
the cavalry commander, seized last
week as a supporter of General
Korniloff General Voyeikoff, the
former emperor's police commandant,
and Anally Alexander Protooopoff,
once classed as a patriotic member
of th® duma. next an oppressive
minister of the interior and last the
ally and slave of the mystic monk,
Rasputin.
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In company with the assistant
procurer of the Petrograd high court
the correspondent drove to the
fortress. Before the main entrance
the automobile, although an official
car, was examined by the soldiers on
guard, who conducted a lorn? crons
questioning of the occupants, after
which they were passed through the
residential section of the Fortress
Enceinte and on to the prison.
Part of Old Fort.
The bastion, which is part of the
obsolete fortification, is on the banks
of the Neva, separated from it only
by a wall from which a daily salute
is fired at mid-day. It is a two story
hexagonal building surrounding a
court yard, along five sides of which
runs a double tier of low, arched
windows, heavily barred. The sixth
side is a high wall.
According to popular belief the
bastion cells are "stone sacks" which
being below the level of the river are
liable to inundation, but this idea Is
erroneous. The lower row. In which
there, are 36 cells, Is on the ground
level, but there are no prisoners here
and the upper story, with the same
number of cells, Is out of the reach
of the recurring: river floods.
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Before Inspecting the cells the cor
respondent visited the prison chan
cellory out of which lead two doors.
Pointing to them, the procurer said
"Inside are prisoners under examln
atlon." He opened the first door Im
mediately, Rhowlnff a etoutleh, irray,
bearded man, who waa Bleletsky
gesticulating to an examining magis
trate, while through the other door
when it was opened could he seen
only a regular acquilinc profile sil
houetted against a barred window.
"That Is Protopopoff," said the
procurer, closing the door.
The correspondent was then con
ducted to the cells on the upper story
In which the prisoners are confined
at present The cells open on a cor
ridor which follows the hexagonal
construction of the building. On
one side of the corridor are barred
windows opening out on the court
yard, while on the other side Is
row of red painted. Iron bound, oak
en doors with slots for peering and
pigeonholes, for handing in food to
the occupants.
Cells Fairly Good.
From the condition of a. vacant
cell, the correspondent gained the
impression that, so long as the Jailer
behaves considerately Imprisonment
in the Troubetskoi bastion involves
no physical suffering. The white
washed cell was a large and clean
one, paved with red cement, lighted
with an electric light set into the
wall and attached to which was a
night light, enabling the warder to
watch the prisoner through the slot.
The cell was not damp and the
sanitary arrangements were modern.
The furniture consists of a good bed
and a table screwed to the wall. The
only defective arrangement is the
inadequate natural lighting, which
the procurer admitted, saying that
the flve-foot thick wall prevents
the enlargement of the windows.
From an examination of the pris
on regulations and the statements
made by Assistant Governor Kurin
din, the correspondent obtained an
idea of the treatment accorded the
prisoners.
"All eight prisoners, who formerly
were compelled to wear prison cloth
ing, now wear their owt," said M.
Murindin. "We supply gratis the ra
tion of a soldier, but the prisoners
are allowed to purchase an officer's
ration, which all of them do except
Protopopoff, who declaring that he
is the cause of Russia's misfortunes,
persists in eating a private's fare.
The prisoners' friends, who may
visit them twice weekly, are allow
ed to bring certain authorized foods,
among which one may And caviar.
The prisoners are permitted to
smoke but are allowed no alcohol.
Few Restrictions.
"Most of the prisoners," continued
the assistant governor, "among whom
are three of Russia's most cultivated
citizens. read all day under no
restrictions, except that newspapers
are not allowed. They have little no
tion of the events of the past Six
months in Russia and the outside
world. They receive letters and may
write them three times a week. Thei
letters are examined by the procurer,
but after the revolution the prison
administration ceased the practice of
testing for invisible ink. which had
been in vogue continuously since the
reign of Peter the Oreat.
"The prisoners exercise In the
court yard twice daily with only
thfeir guards for company. Thev
never see one another. The doctor
visits each cell daily, but in case of
serious sickness the prisoners are
sent to hospitals outside, as were
for instance, the late Premier Stunn
er and the former empress' friend
Mile. Virubova, as there is no hos
pital within the fortress. The pris
oners behave extremely well, and are
never querulous now. Immediately
after the revolution, however, we
had here the Black Hundred Jew
baiter, OrlofTev, who raised trouble
daily. The only request we received
lately was from General Rennen
k&mpff, who being afraid of lynching,
begged us not to transfer him to an
other prison."
The Prison Guard*.
The correspondent next inspected
the prison guards, who are of two
classes. The first is a regular mili
tary unit, posted on the periphery
of the bastion. The second is com
posed of two representatives of
every regiment In Petrograd, who
are stationed inside. These men
Jealously watch the prisoners.
Governor Kurindin declared that
escape from the prison was incon
ceivable and that none was on record
in modern times. In the library, the
correspondent found volumes in
Russian, French, English, German,
Italian and even In Finnish, the last
fox the use of the Finnish patriot*
who under former Premier Stolyro
pin's oppressive "equality law" were
tried and imprisoned in Russia.
The court yard, in which because
of the rain that waui falling at the
time, no one was exercising, makes
an incongruous impression because,
though overlooked by the forbidding
barred windows, it can be reached
only through a metal cage, in which
the prisoners wait. The yard itself
is a green paradise, overgrown by
now flowerless Jabimev and lilac
bushes and shade! by tall lines ot
poplars, aspens and maples. It is
rimmed with a broken pavement,
from the crevices of which rise wild
plants and untrodden grasses. Under
a towering tree i* the center of the
yard, a shapeless bathhouse used by
the prisoners strikes another incon
gruous note.
Next in order came a visit to the
unoccupied obeolete part of the pris
on under the commandailt's house.
This consists of real "stone sacks"
with earthen floors far below the
river level and with windows guard
ed by numerous bar work, designed
to imitate & row of medieval hal
berds.
"There," said the procurer, 'lan
guished, I believe, Peter's son, Alexis,
before he was tortured to death, and
the next cell, held the beautiful, but
unfortunate pretender, Princess Tar
akhanoff, whom adventurers set up
as the daughter of Empress Eliza
beth."
Roll of Past Captives.
Returning to the chancellory tba
correspondent examined the roll of
past captives, among whom were the
terrorist assassin, Gershuni and the
chemist, Nicholas Morosoff, held in
the bastion for 25 years Under sus
picion of complicity in the assassina
tion of Alexander II.
In the roll were two other entries
of a striking character in a different
way. The first reads:
"1905, Jan. 12, Pieshkoff Alexis
Maximovinch." This is the real name
of Maxim Gorky. The second entry
reads: "Gillik Issye, identity uncer
tain, believed surname Mazantzeff,
handed over for execution, Feb. 7,
1908."
While the roll was under examina
tion there occurred the most striking
incident of the visit. After putting
his*head into one of the side roomq,
the procurer announced that the
examination within the room had
ben finished. Into the chancellory,
with two soldiers behind him waliv
ed, well dressed but collarless, a man
of middle height, slight figure, small
features and a short grayish beard,
with eyes unnaturally bright and al
most feverish and an expression of
extraordinary refinement and dignity.
"That," said the procurer "is M.
Protopopoff."
The former minister ot the interior
stopped in the middle of the room.
"We can speak English," he began,
at which the procurer Intervened.
"Please do not." he said.
On this M. Protopopoff, with a
smile apparently intended to express
sarcasm, and moving his head quick
ly from side to side and twitching
his hands io nervous, feminine like
gestures, began speaking in Russian*
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Asked regarding his health, he ans
wered enigmatically, "it is too good.'
Convinced that he would not be al
lowed to touch upon politics. The
Associated Press correspondent In
quired regarding the treatment
the former minister was receiving
and as to whether he had any com
plaints to make.
"Why ask me a question whicli
answers itself?" replied M. Proto
popoff. "How could I make com
plaints?"
"I do not mean on the score of
your imprisonment or trial," explain?
ed the correspondent, "but on the
score of the conduct of prison offi
cials."
"I have no complaints of any
kind," answered M. Protopopoff, and
he continued:
"Would any of you Americans com
plain if they knew they were deeper
ate criminals?"
Her? M. Protopopoff smiled, again
apparently in sarcasm, and the cor
respondent. thinking the words in
tended as an oblique request against
his treatment said:
"You mean that as irony?"
"It is not irony." answered M.
Protopopoff. "I have no right to com
plain because I am guilty of crime."
"That," said the correspondent,"- is
a strange remark in the presence of
the procurer, whose duty is to pile
up evidence against you."
The former minister's head again
was thrust quickly to one side as he
said, without a smile:
"I supply the evidence myself,
am guilty of the most awful crime
of not understanding the spirit of my
age."
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