11Peter and Paul Fortress
St. Petersburg, Russia
October 1905
As he was brought through the main entrance, Morrison recalled that the fortress, built by Peter the Great, was the first building constructed in St. Petersburg. In more recent times, it served as a prison for political dissidents and often served as a way station for the transport of these prisoners to internal exile in Siberia. It also housed hardened criminals charged with capital crimes against the state.
Bored, indifferent bureaucrats processed Morrison quickly into the prison, first by confiscating and then destroying all of his personal identification. They arbitrarily assigned a number as his only source of identification: Number Ten. After his in-processing, a scruffy but pleasant young man arrived to escort him to
