| Show r e The Execution St Petersburg 15Tl1e appeals of llussnkoff and Michloff were submitted sub-mitted to the Czar but lie replied that the sentence of the court must be carried out The condemned were escorted from the fortress to the place of execution by Cossacks and infantry with drums beating and fifes play mg Detachments of all the regiments regi-ments tf guards in St Petersburg surrounded the scaffold All the prisoners leceived the ministration of priests and kissed the cross and each other They were very firm except llussakoif who fainted at the last moment Many thousands of people passed the night at the place of eXecution in order to obtain a good view The executioner was a reprieved convict The prisoners were conveyed from the fortress in two carts with their backs to the horses and their hands tied to boards on their breasts bearing bear-ing the words Regicide in large letters After hanging twenty minutes the bodies were cut down and taken to the cemetery outside tile city When the prisoners mounted the scaffold the head of each was covered with a sack They were then placed upon stools which were drawn away and they were left hanging |
