After the 1905-1907 Russian Revolution, the prominent Russian politician Peter Stolypin was elected as the Minister of International Affairs. He instituted a new court system that made it easier for the arrest and conviction of political revolutionaries. In the first six months of their existence, the courts passed 1,042 death sentences. It has been claimed that over 3,000 suspects were convicted and executed between 1906 and 1909 by these special courts. The hangman's noose in Russia became known as "Stolypin's necktie."

Illustrated here is the man who coined this expression, Fyodor Rodichev, a Duma member from 1906-1917. According to the poem accompanying the picture, he was exiled to France during the 1917-1923 Russian Revolution.

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Source: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia