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After the boys were arrested, they were treat according to a certain plan. For the first three days in jail, they were fed thin soup with sardines, but then they were fed as if being fattened up for slaughter.
During the day, they read. Sergo Mikoyan was absolutely captivated by Dostoevsky and du Terrail’s Rocambole series, after discovering that like Rocambole, he was being held in cell 413. Khmelnitsky was put in cell 91, a good cell with a toilet and sink, and he waited every day for the library cart — in six months, the boys read more than they ever had or ever would. Redens’ cell mate introduced himself as the projectionist Masterkov (allegedly arrested for letting a film projector catch on fire), and this Masterkov would entertain the boy by retelling movies,
