Top Left: Taken between the years 1905-1906, the picture shows patients of Kashchenko Psychiatric Hospital enjoying a game of pool. The picture shows the better level of treatment and humanization that Tsarist Russia had intended for its wards. The building itself shows a well maintained facade  with few cracks or signs of decay in the level of commitment and funding for these istsitutions as places of treatment.

Bottom Left: This photograph found in a magazine article titled "Russia's Unholy Fools" shows the sheer underfunding and lack of care that psychiatric facilities had under the Soviet government. The men are is a state of depression, being confined to try and clean their dilapidated washroom. One man looks out the window to freedom by any means, whether internal policy change or the ignition of protests from the rest of the world. The freedom may never come, as another patient sits curled up due to the depressive state of the building but also of her mental state. To be treated an expeirment and prisoner for only dissenting against a repressive government with little hope of freedom would drive one mad.

Right: The last photo to is from "Russia's Unholy Fools." It shows the barbarity of what truly was happening in these inststutions. A patient being sedated while being restrained is a telling and sad scene. To be medicated and expeiremented against one's will would make any civilized nation fear what has happened to others before this one. The photo is graphic, but it is representative of the fear and the force that the Soviet regime would use to silence any dissent.