This is the most sadistic prison in Russia?

Welcome to the Prison Castle (Alexander Aksakov / Getty Images / BBC Travel)

Tobolsk - His name Prison Castle, the most sadistic prison in Russia. For 150 years, 2,500 prisoners were executed there. Who would have thought this place is now a museum.

BBC Travel review sites about Prison Castle is located in Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast. to get there, tourists can catch a flight from Moscow within 2,333 km.

Prison Castle is not just any prison. Built in 1855 and closed in 1989, the prison was mentioned the most horrific and sadistic in Russia. State prisoner from the politician to the perpetrators of the crime, was thrown into it.

Stalin as the leader of the USSR (the Russian name when used) in the mid 1920s, using prisons to incarcerate prisoners. Russian society also thinks, Prison Castle is the most restrictive prison custody and no one has ever managed to escape there.

The room cell in Prison Castle (Alexander Aksakov / Getty Images / BBC Travel)

justify;">Prison is wide, can accommodate thousands of people. Until now, the building is well maintained and does not look very sinister-spooky. But the story of the torture of prisoners in it, being able to make the hair stand. 2,500 Prisoners, noted executed in Prison Castle. But many people think, the number could be more than that or doubled.

Some abuses of prisoners there are, the prisoners were told to be outdoors when the winter was a great-great. Menggenakan without clothes, they feel very cold temperatures that reached minus 20 degrees Celsius!

The room was not human cells. There is only measuring one meter, making it difficult for people to stand or sit. Healthy prisoners were also ignored, which during life in prison, they only wear one set of clothes without ever replaced with new ones. Never mind that every single cell room has no lights!

Some photos of the prisoners there (Alexander Aksakov / Getty Images / BBC Travel)

Other rooms are more spacious cell. But still uncomfortable, because the prisoners had to double up for the fullness. The cold air and life is not worth it, is enough to make many prisoners lost their lives.

Prison Castle apparently had a special way so that the prisoners continue to be monitored. The prisoners, hair was shaved off on the right. Thus, allowing the guards to monitor and be a sign that they are prisoners of Prison Castle.

Now, Prison Castle have been opened as a tourist destination in the form of a museum. In fact, transformed into a hostel where some rooms are equipped cell heating and a soft mattress. Want to try to spend the night there?

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