Trubetskoy Bastion Prison

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Trubetskoy Bastion Prison was a notorious high-security political prison within the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, used by the Russian Empire and later regimes to incarcerate dissidents and revolutionaries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical building
political prison
prison
architecturalStyle 19th-century military architecture
country Russia
Russian Empire
currentUse museum
dissolved 1918
endDate 1918
exhibits conditions of political prisoners
history of political repression in Russia
hasPart exercise yards
guard posts
solitary confinement cells
heritageStatus cultural heritage monument of Russia
inception 1872
locatedIn Peter and Paul Fortress
Russia
St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg

Zayachy Island
namedAfter Trubetskoy Bastion
notablePrisoner Bolshevik activists
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leon Trotsky
Maksim Gorky
surface form: Maxim Gorky

Members of Narodnaya Volya
Mikhail Bakunin
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Socialist Revolutionary Party
surface form: Socialist Revolutionaries
openToPublic yes
operator Russian Provisional Government
surface form: Provisional Government of Russia

Russian Empire
Soviet Union
surface form: Soviet Russia

Soviet Union
partOf Peter and Paul Fortress
State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg
reputation notorious
symbol of political repression
securityClassification high-security
startDate 1872
touristAttraction yes
usedByRegime Russian Provisional Government
surface form: Provisional Government

Tsarist autocracy
early Soviet regime
usedFor detention of revolutionaries
high-security confinement
incarceration of political prisoners

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Nevsky Gate near Trubetskoy Bastion Prison
Zayachy Island hasLandmark Trubetskoy Bastion Prison