thanks; new query

[Frans Suasso]

М;атросская тишина is the name of the street where следвенный изолятор  No 1 
is located. It is not a penal institution in the legal sense  but a place 
where suspects are kept in isolation while underinvestigation. There are six 
of them in Moscow.

I hope this is helpful

Dr. Frans Suasso, Naarden Netherlands

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From: "Prof Steven P Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:57 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] thanks; new query


> 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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