Winter Sun
The winter sun hangs low in the western sky over the bare branches of trees planted along the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment. Who, by the way, was Lieutenant Schmidt? Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Russian Imperial Navy, but became one of the leaders of a naval uprising during the unsuccessful revolution of 1905. Among other things, he encouraged the populace to stand up for human rights and urged the authorities to free political prisoners and to convene a Constitutional Assembly. As a result, he was sentenced to death after the uprising was squelched and shot on March 19, 1906.
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