Photomontage containing the portraits of Russian narodniki accused in the Trial of the Fifty (1877), distributed at the time by the studio of Alfred & John Bool in London.
The upper part of the text says: 'Condemned, after two years of solitary confinement in prison, for social-revolutionary propaganda.' Underneath is a quotation of the Russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov: 'Your crown of thorns outshines the victor's crown.' In the surrounding chain, the punishments of the condemned: (1) Aleksandra Khorzhevskaya, 5 years forced labour; (2) Sof'ya Bardina, 9 years forced labour; (3) Ol'ga Lyubatovich, 9 years forced labour; (4) Vera Lyubatovich, 6 years forced labour; (5) Mar'ya Subbotina, exile to Siberia; (6) Anna Toporkova, 4 years house of correction; (7) Yekatrina Gamkrelidze, 6 weeks prison; (8) Yevgeniya Subbotina, exile to Siberia.