In Peter, on a tour of the prison of the Trubetsky bastion (which is in the Petropavlovsky fortress). The guide tells us that this prison is purely political, not criminal, the prisoners were generally nobles. In this prison there was no torture, heavy physical labor, here the emphasis was placed on psychological pressure, torture by loneliness. You could ask the security guard to buy a fresh bread for tea, the prison had an extensive library, daily walks in the fresh air, and so on. Thus, the basic principles of detention in this prison were: complete loneliness (all cameras for one person), ringing silence (it was even forbidden to knock over) and complete physical inactivity (it was only possible to read and write, physical labor was excluded). And then from the crowd of tourists comes a disturbing male voice: "In general, I call it "vacation"..."