This denunciation was linked up with a criminal case, the discovery in the house of prayer, which was attached to the printing-press, of the body of one of the compositors who, it was alleged, had intended to lay bare the activities of the "criminal" press before the Government.

After a protracted imprisonment of the two Slavuta printers in Kiev, their case was submitted to Nicholas I.who sentenced them to _Spiessruten_ [1] and deportation to Siberia.

During the procedure of running the gauntlet, while passing through the lines of whipping soldiers, one of the brothers had his cap knocked off his head.

Unconcerned by the hail of lashes from which he was bleeding, he stopped to pick up his cap so as to avoid going bare-headed, [2] and then resumed his march between the two rows of executioners.

The unfortunate brothers were released from their Siberian exile during the reign of Alexander II.
[Footnote 1: See above, p.