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NOTORIOUS RUSSIAN BASTILE CONFINES
 FAMOUS PRISONERS
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 PETROGRAD, Sept. 24. Monday As the result of months negotiations, after which a decision by Premier Kerensky finally was asked, the Asso- ciated Press correspondent was per mitted today to inspect the notorious Troubetskoi bastion of the fortress of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the bas- tile of Petrograd. Here during two centuries there have been immured highb born traitors, pretenders to the throne, assassins of emperors, propa- gandists of Nihilism and bomb throw CTS, and here today the most hated ad- herents of the banished autocratic regime are awaiting the nations yer dict.
 In this bastion are interned eight eX- alted culprits They are General Rem nenkampff, whose record as a military judge in 1906 during the attempted revolution constituted a 'hangman's progress to Siberia classed as equal ing, if not surpassing. the infamies Of the notorious Jeffreys; M. Bieletsky, former director of police and accom- plice of agents provocateur; the reac- tionary former minister of the in interior, M. Makaroff, who procured the election of a burglar to the duma to act as spy; M. Sikremieff, ac- cused of serious offenses as chief of the army motor supply office; former minister of justice. J. Chtcheglovitioff, whom the late Count Witte character iZed as the most clever, most corrupt man in Europe;" Prince Alexander Dolgorukoff, the cavalry commander seized last week as supporter of Gen eral Korniloff; General Voyeikoff, the former emperor's palace commandant, and finally Alexander Protopopoff, once classed as patriotic member of the duma, next an oppressive minis ter of the interior and last the ally, slave of the mystic monk Rasputin.
 The bastion, which is a part of the obsolete fertilization, is on the banks of the Neva It is a two story, hex agonal 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 bas- tion 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 NuIuDef or cells, IS out or reach Of the recurring river floods
 The correspondent visited the fort ress in company with the assistant procurator of the Petrograd high court.
 Before inspecting the cells the cor respondent visited the prison chan ceiory, out of which led two doors Pointing to them the procurator said :: Inside are prisoners under examina- ton. He opened the first door i'm mediately, showing q stoutish, gray bearded man, who was Bieletsky. ges- ticulating to an examining magistrate while through the other door when it was opened could be seen only a reg ular, acquiline profile silhouetted against a barred window.
 That is Protopopoff, caid the pro curator, closing the door,
 The correspondent was then con cucted to the cells on the upper story in which the prisoners are confined al present The cells open on a corridor Which follows the heXagonal con struction of the building. On one side of the corridor are barred windows opening out on the courtyard, while or the other side is a row of red-painted ron-bound. oaken doors with slots fo, peering and pigeonholes, which may be closed at will for handing in food to the occupants.
 From the condition of vacant eel the correspondent gained the impres. sion that, so long as the taller behave. considerably, imprisonment in the Tro. betskoi bastion involves no physica suffering. The White-washed cell wa, large and clean one. The cell wa, not damp and the sanitary arrange mentS were modern. The furnitur, consists of good bed and a tab,. screwed to the wall The only defectiv, arrangement is the inadequate natura lighting, which the procurator admitted saying that the five-foot thick wal prevents the enlargement of the win l dows.
 From an examination of the prison regulations and the statements mad, by Assistant Governor Kurindin, tn, correspondent obtained an idea of tn treatment accorded the prisoners. All the eight prisoners, who form erly were compelled to wear prisol clothing. now wear their own" said M | kurindin. We supply gratis the ratiol 1 of a soldier, but the prisoners are al | lowed to purchase an officers ration
 which all of them do except Protopop | OH, who, declarlng that he is the caus 1 of Russia's misfortunes, persists in eat ! ing private's fare The prisoners ! friends, who may visit them twic 1 weekly, are allowed to bring certai i authorized foods, among which on
 may find caviar. The prisoners are per 1 mitted to smoke but are allowed n alcohol.
 Most of the prisoners" continue ! the assistant governor among whor
 are three of Russia's most cultivate 1 citizens, read all day under no restric | tions, except that newspapers are nc
 allowed They have little notion (
 the events of the last six months 1
 Russia and the outside world They re
 ceive letters and may write them thre
 times weak. The letters are examine
 by the procurator, but after the revolu | tion the prison administration cease ] Continued on Page TWo)