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History’s Top Executioners of All Time

Khalid Elhassan June 5, 2020 34 min

37. You Did Not Want to be One of Saltykova’s Serfs – Especially Not One of Her Female Serfs

The flogging of a Russian serf woman. Wikimedia

The murderous widow’s wrath was directed mainly at females. Of her hundreds of murder victims, only three were male, and they were killed by accident. Her vengeance upon men took the form of forcing them to watch her torture and murder their female kin. One of her male serfs, for example, lost three wives, one after the other, to Saltykova’s depravities.

Her viciousness towards her female serfs knew no bounds. She tortured and murdered them throughout the entire age spectrum, from babies to aging crones. Her wrath fell heaviest, however, on younger female serfs. Especially those who were both young and pretty.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.