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I know that it is unpleasant for you to listen to me, but if you have the courage to hang a man for his convictions, then have THE RUSSIAN BASTILLE 67 the bravery to listen to Mm before you hang him. ' 9 Grershuni was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to confine- ment in the Schlusselburg Fortress for life. Before he was taken there Plehve visited him and endeavored to engage him in a conversation. The object was to induce him to petition the Czar for clemency. Grershuni refused to ...speak to Plehve. When the decision on the commutation of sentence was brought to him by the presiding judge, Ger- shuni exclaimed, "I did not ask for it. " Before he knew of the change of sentence he wrote to his friends apolo- gizing for his refusal to escape, before the anticipated arrest as they had urged him to do. "I had to remain in Russia. You know that I always opposed desertion of the battlefield. I know that my exe- cution will be a hard blow to you, but 68 THE RUSSIAN BASTILLE it will serve our cause.
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