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Excerpt from The Russian Bastille
The Schlusselburg Fortress was not an ordinary prison. It was a Bastille -a place for the arbitrary incarcera tion, torture and execution of political offenders. It is situated on an island on the Neva, fifty-four north of St. Petersburg. In earlier days it had been used as a prison, but not until the summer of 1884, after a long disuse and desertion, was it consigned to the purpose which it so effectively served for more than twenty-one years.
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