![]() ![]() ![]() Then in October 1917 these were joined by the very men who'd locked them up – the officials of the February 1917 Provisional Government. One of the most potty cases was imprisoning the explorer and anarchist prince Kropotkin for publishing the first scientific investigations into the Ice Age.Īfter the February Revolution of 1917 (which preceded the later October Socialist Revolution) the Trubetskoy bastion was packed with imprisoned officials of the former tsarist government. Even harmless writers and adventurers were charged with being bombers, terrorists, and revolutionaries. Towards the end of the C19th the secret dungeons in the Alexeevsky ravelin had already been closed, and so the casements of the Trubetskoy bastion were rebuilt as a two-storey prison conisting of 69 solitary cells. Tsarevitch Alexei is buried in the fortress cathedral of SS Peter & Paul. There were rumours that Peter had strangled his son – but these stories were so unlikely that they weren't taken seriously, and now they are forgotten. ![]() A court sentenced the young tsarevitch to death – but he died two days after the sentence was passed, and thus was never executed. The heir to the throne was interrogated by his own father, and eventually admitted to the charges of treason. From the day of its completion it was already in use as a prison, and the first captive of this “Russian Bastille” was Peter the Great's own son, tsarevitch Alexei – who had plotted against his father. Peter the Great entrusted the construction of this bastion to nobleman Yuri Trubetskoy. The Ekaterininskaya curtain runs onwards from Trubetskoy to the Naryshkin bastion. It's joined to the Zotov bastion by the Vasilievskaya curtain wall. Like the Zotov bastion, the Trubetskoy bastion is in the west part of the fortress – but instead of facing dry land, it looks out onto the river Neva. ![]()
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