On September 6, 1907, the Military District Court began considering the case of members of a Military organization attached to the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP1 in the building of judicial institutions cordoned off by troops in St. Petersburg . The trial lasted two weeks and was held behind closed doors. Even the defendants ' relatives and friends were not allowed to enter the courtroom. On September 7, the St. Petersburg liberal - bourgeois newspaper Rech published a lengthy report on the trial) by naming the accused. Among them was the doctor Fyodor Vasilyevich Gusarov 2 . The indictment stated that the persons brought to trial in 1906 joined "a secret community called the Military Organization under the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP and the Joint Committee of the same Party, which obviously set for them the goal of its activities to forcibly change the established monarchical way of government to a republican one by means of popular insurrection and mutinies in army and navy units... Members of this society conducted oral propaganda among military ranks, organized gatherings that were not permitted by the latter, distributed among them all kinds of revolutionary publications, pamphlets and proclamations, as well as party organs of the time press and, in particular, issues of the Kazarma newspaper published by the community, specially adapted for propagating the above-mentioned socialist and revolutionary ideas among the troops. "3 About Gusarov, the indictment stated: "While in contact with members of a Military Organization, he directed his activities to criminal agitation among the troops of the St. Petersburg garrison, and also as a member of the Committee attached to the Military Organization, he had influence over the District District, which includes troops stationed in Kronstadt, Krasnoe Selo, Oranienbaum and others."4On September 21, the verdict was announced. The court sentenced Gusarov to four years of hard labor with deprivation of the ... Read more