PtG seems to have been a total r'sole, he had his own son tortured & executed for "conspiracy" and is said to have personally executed 200 other alleged conspirators ..
In 1719, Peter the Great of Russia ordered the execution by beheading of Mary Hamilton, his mistress. Once the execution was complete, Peter picked up Mary's head and kissed it on the lips. He then gave the crowd an impromptu lecture on human anatomy, kissed the head again, threw it away, and left. Reddit.
The story about Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine I, involves a dramatic and violent incident. According to historical accounts, Peter discovered that Catherine had been unfaithful. In a fit of rage, he had the lover, a man named Afanasy Shestakov, executed. The account suggests that Peter then had Shestakov's head preserved in a jar of alcohol and placed in Catherine's room as a gruesome reminder of the betrayal. Quora.
Peter from an early age acquired excessive cruelty. When he was 26 years old, while suppressing the uprising of the archers, Peter I personally tortured the archers - there is evidence of a large group of Danes who accidentally caught him doing this. Peter I was furious when he saw the Danes, and barely sent them themselves to the secret police for a “search” (Burovsky, p.404). Then, Peter personally had cut off the heads of the five archers.
In 1698, about 1,500 archers were executed, who in the overwhelming majority were not guilty of anything and did not confess to intending to “create a riot” even under cruel torture (Pavlenko, p. 124-127). Moreover, many archers were subjected to the most painful penalty - wheeling (Pokrovsky, vol. 3, p. 72a)
Peter I personally tortured his son, Tsarevich Alexei: this is the testimony of Andrei Rubtsov, a servant of Musin-Pushkin, who found the Tzar behind this occupation (Anisimov, p. 451-452)
The torture of Tsarevich Alexei from June 19 to June 26, 1718 (after which he died) was turned into nightly "performances" attended by almost all the Peter's close friends: Menshikov, Dolgorukov, Golovkin, Apraksin, Musin-Pushkin, Shafirov, Buturlin , Tolstoy and others (Pavlenko N.I., Around the Throne, M., 1998, p.337-338; Pokrovsky, vol. 3, p.200a)
Characteristic given to Peter I by Leo Tolstoy: “he was a rabid beast”, “a great bastard, a murderer” (Burovsky, p. 5) Quora.
[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 7 monthsSep 15, 2024 09:27:22 ago (+1/-0)*
Jesus, being wheeled sounds really fucking awful. First they break the bones in your limbs however many times they want by dropping the wagon wheel from some height onto your body (you're tied down). Then, in the "second act" (assuming they weren't merciful enough to kill you in the "first act"), they weave your pulverized limbs through the spokes of the wheel, mimicking a crucifixion-like pose. You're either hanged up that way and allowed to expire whenever your body gives out, or you could be beheaded, or thrown (wheel and all) into a fire.
People are pretty fucking terrible.
I don't think people (incl. me) appreciate often enough the fact that this was still going on (although less popular by far) in the first part of the 19th century. We aren't even 200 years out from people in Europe still wheeling one another.
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In 1698, about 1,500 archers were executed, who in the overwhelming majority were not guilty of anything and did not confess to intending to “create a riot” even under cruel torture (Pavlenko, p. 124-127). Moreover, many archers were subjected to the most painful penalty - wheeling (Pokrovsky, vol. 3, p. 72a)
Peter I personally tortured his son, Tsarevich Alexei: this is the testimony of Andrei Rubtsov, a servant of Musin-Pushkin, who found the Tzar behind this occupation (Anisimov, p. 451-452)
The torture of Tsarevich Alexei from June 19 to June 26, 1718 (after which he died) was turned into nightly "performances" attended by almost all the Peter's close friends: Menshikov, Dolgorukov, Golovkin, Apraksin, Musin-Pushkin, Shafirov, Buturlin , Tolstoy and others (Pavlenko N.I., Around the Throne, M., 1998, p.337-338; Pokrovsky, vol. 3, p.200a)
Characteristic given to Peter I by Leo Tolstoy: “he was a rabid beast”, “a great bastard, a murderer” (Burovsky, p. 5) Quora.
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[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 7 monthsSep 15, 2024 09:27:22 ago (+1/-0)*
People are pretty fucking terrible.
I don't think people (incl. me) appreciate often enough the fact that this was still going on (although less popular by far) in the first part of the 19th century. We aren't even 200 years out from people in Europe still wheeling one another.
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[ - ] Ducktalesooo000ooo 0 points 7 monthsSep 15, 2024 06:49:18 ago (+0/-0)
Are you going to be under cover?
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