Video: How people were betrayed to death in Russia: 5 favorite methods of execution of Ivan the Terrible
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Much has been said about the savage torture in Medieval Europe. Unfortunately, the realities of that time were such that executions in Russia were no less cruel. So, perhaps, the most famous ruler who "creatively" executed people was Ivan the Terrible … This review presents 5 ruthless execution methods adored by the Russian tsar.
One of the favorite executions and spectacular executions of Ivan the Terrible was the one with which the unfortunate man was dressed in a bearskin and dogs were pitted against him. The dogs immediately tore apart the victim. This method of execution was called "sheathe bear". In a similar way, Leonid, a bishop from Novgorod, was executed. They were frequent cases when the victims were not sewn into the skins of bears, but simply thrown them to be torn apart by them.
Executions, in the understanding of Ivan the Terrible, had to be long and painful. So, for example, the clerk and diplomat Ivan Viskovaty, who tried to convey to the cruel tsar the unreasonableness of the death sentence he had imposed on a group of boyars, was tied to a pole himself, and then pieces of flesh were gradually chopped off from a living person.
Part of the Russian fairy tales reflects an episode when, for rejuvenation, a person plunges into a cauldron of boiling water, then into cold water. Unfortunately, such a practice existed, and the reality was more brutal than a fairy tale. Traitors were boiled alive. The king's guardsmen also showed creativity and poured boiling or icy water over the unfortunate ones until the skin “didn’t come off in a stocking”.
Mass executions were also not uncommon during the time of Ivan the Terrible. Once he ordered to drown several dozen boyars from Veliky Novgorod, having previously dragged them across the field, tied to horses. The king did not spare anyone: after the boyars, their bound wives and children were sent into the river. If someone managed to get to the surface, then they were finished off by the guardsmen.
Guilty monks were often destined to be tied to a barrel of gunpowder. It is believed that in those moments the tsar liked to repeat: "Come on, they, like angels, immediately go to heaven." Ivan the Terrible is a controversial figure. On the one hand, he went down in history as a tyrant, and on the other, as a wise reformer and ruler who strengthened his state.
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