thanks; new query

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear most helpful colleagues:

1.  Please accept my thanks, all of you who advised me 
about unsolicited E-Mail messages called "postcard from 
Russia."  Afer reading your feedback, I deleted, unopened, 
the notice which I had received (offering me a "postcard"), 
and in future I will immediately delete such notices, always 
without clicking to "open." 

2.  Now, a new query, about crooks, crime, jails, prisons, 
"camps," etc. In some of the literature I'm reading this summer, 
I encounter references to "silence for sailors," if I take literally 
that expression.  But clearly it refers to a notorious JAIL or 
PRISON called "Matrosskaia tishina."  

Does anyone out there have some explanation, how a notorious 
penal institution acquired such a curious name?

With gratitude,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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