The whole Soviet walks downstairs and enters the crowd. Revolutionary anthems, shouts . . . Red banners outside Pobedonostsev's house. Let him gaze with his old, guilty eyes at the revolutionary masses, masters of the streets of Petersburg. Two or three more streets, and the crowd is outside the House of Preliminary Confinement.
News is received that a strong army ambush is waiting there.
The leaders of the demonstration decide to set out on a reconnaissance. After brief consultation, the leaders disperse the crowd. The demonstrators undertake, should the decree not be published, to meet again at the Soviet's summons and march on the prisons. The struggle for amnesty went on everywhere. On the same day a crowd in Simferopol smashed the gates of the prison and drove the political prisoners away in carriages.