Door to the Hell

Number 4. Cell numbers were written on the leather flaps of the peepholes. On the stand next to it is a photograph of Sofia Ginsburg, a member of Narodnaya Volya organization, sentenced to death, which was replaced by eternal hard labor. After imprisonment in the Alekseevsky Ravelin in Peter and Paul Fortress (St.Petersburg), she was transferred here on December 1, 1890. To isolate the prison more completely, the workshops were removed from the citadel, but two insane prisoners were left here - Konashevich and Shchadrin. Sofia sentence was the shortest in the entire history of the fortress prison. After 5 weeks of solitary confinement, she opened her carotid artery with blunt-tipped scissors, which were issued at her request for needlework.