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Russian prison officers are still baffled...

the prison is mentioned in official documents which date back to the 17th century. Some of the prison"s more famous inmates include revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

In 1908, U.S. stunt man Harry Houdini made a bet with Moscow authorities that he could escape from any prison in the Russian capital. He was restrained with shackles and locked in an iron box in the Butyrka prison, but somehow managed to escape in 28 minutes.

Three inmates escaped from Butyrka in September 2001 through a hole they had dug from their cell to the street. Two were caught soon after the jailbreak; the third was at large for 18 months.

Another inmate "simply walked out of the prison" a month after the incident in 2001, apparently after bribing several guards. He was caught and re-detained two months later.

MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)



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