The verdict concerning the five terrorists was pronounced finally and confirmed upon the same day.

The condemned were not told when the execution would take place, but they knew from the usual procedure that they would be hanged the same night, or, at the very latest, upon the following night.

And when it was proposed to them that they meet their relatives upon the following Thursday they understood that the execution would take place on Friday at dawn.
Tanya Kovalchuk had no near relatives, and those whom she had were somewhere in the wilderness in Little Russia, and it was not likely that they even knew of the trial or of the coming execution.

Musya and Werner, as unidentified people, were not supposed to have relatives, and only two, Sergey Golovin and Vasily Kashirin, were to meet their parents.

Both of them looked upon that meeting with terror and anguish, yet they dared not refuse the old people the last word, the last kiss.
Sergey Golovin was particularly tortured by the thought of the coming meeting.