The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Segur, Volume 2
The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Segur, Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...at Moscow in September, 1698, before any one there knew of his having left Germany. Gordon had already crushed the rebels; had almost exterminated in battle a body of them, comprising ten thousand men; compelled seven thousand more to lay down their arms; decimated them on the spot, and carried the rest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...at Moscow in September, 1698, before any one there knew of his having left Germany. Gordon had already crushed the rebels; had almost exterminated in battle a body of them, comprising ten thousand men; compelled seven thousand more to lay down their arms; decimated them on the spot, and carried the rest prisoners to Moscow. But even this rigorous vindication of military discipline was not enough to satisfy the cruel spirit of the czar. Just returned from the tour he had undertaken for the purpose of importing among his barbarous people the enlightenment and civilisation of the west, he exhibited to them a spectacle paralleled only by the deeds of the monster Ivan IV., for whom, indeed, Peter always avowed his special admiration. There were seven thousand Strelitz prisoners in Moscow, all of whom he caused to be executed after six weeks spent in personally examining them, day by day, under torture inflicted before his eyes with every refinement of diabolical cruelty. Two thousand were hanged by his guards; the rest were beheaded, kneeling in rows of fifty, before trunks of trees laid on the ground. This part of the execution was begun by the czar himself, who struck off some scores of heads with his own hand. All the nobles of his court, the foreigners Blumberg and Le Port alone ex-cepted, were compelled to follow his example; and Mentehi-kof made a boast of surpassing all his brother-executioners in amount of work and style of performance. Several hundreds of the corpses were gibbeted at the gates of the city and along the walls; the rest were left unburied where they had fallen; and as the execution took place in October, at the setting in of the frost, the people of Moscow had for five whole months before their eyes the horrid spectacle of...
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