CHAPTER XIII

LIBERTY IN PRISON

Murder of the student Davidoff--Precautions for the anniversary of Bloody Sunday--Strike Committee orders a memorial of silence--The day on the Schlüsselberg road--The Navy and telescopic sights--Silence in the workmen’s districts--The Vampire and Freedom--Wholesale arrests--Methods of imprisonment and sentence--The House of Inquiry--A letter from prison--The Peter-Paul fortress--Khroustoloff’s prison--The Cross prison--Imprisonments and executions--Why Russia has no Cromwell--The Schlüsselberg converted into a mint--Statistics of suppression--The committee of ministers--Siberian exile continued--Meetings of Constitutional Democrat delegates--Their methods and programme--Their leaders--Miliukoff still hopeful 228