The Serial Killer - Part XIX
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Another symbol of female aggression. In the mid-to-late 1700s, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova is purported to have killed over 100 of her serfs. Her victims tended to be young women or girls and always serfs of her estate, which had been inherited from her husband after his death. The deaths by Darya were largely ignored due to her position of power and friendship with those within the royal courts of Russia until her arrest in 1762.
Following the investigation of over 100 suspicious deaths, she was found guilty of 38. The death penalty had been abolished in Russia at the time of her conviction and so she was displayed publicly with a sign around her neck, and then sent to life in prison.
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Another symbol of female aggression. In the mid-to-late 1700s, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova is purported to have killed over 100 of her serfs. Her victims tended to be young women or girls and always serfs of her estate, which had been inherited from her husband after his death. The deaths by Darya were largely ignored due to her position of power and friendship with those within the royal courts of Russia until her arrest in 1762.
Following the investigation of over 100 suspicious deaths, she was found guilty of 38. The death penalty had been abolished in Russia at the time of her conviction and so she was displayed publicly with a sign around her neck, and then sent to life in prison.
Now to the how's and why's.
Saltykova was held for six years while the authorities conducted a painstaking investigation. They questioned many witnesses and examined the records of the Saltykova estate, counting as many as 138 suspicious deaths, of which the vast majority were attributed to the noblewoman.
She was found guilty of having killed 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death.
In 1768, Saltykova was chained on a platform in Moscow for one hour, with a sign around her neck with the text: "This woman has tortured and murdered." Many people came to look at her during the hour she was displayed. Afterward, she was sent to imprisonment for life in the basement of Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow. She was buried next to her relatives in the Donskoy Monastery necropolis.
She was found guilty of having killed 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death.
In 1768, Saltykova was chained on a platform in Moscow for one hour, with a sign around her neck with the text: "This woman has tortured and murdered." Many people came to look at her during the hour she was displayed. Afterward, she was sent to imprisonment for life in the basement of Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow. She was buried next to her relatives in the Donskoy Monastery necropolis.
As to the why, I can only think of one very mundane reason - Darya was a bored noble woman who had no occupation and lots of money. It was an amusement to her, perhaps even a way of avenging the labor life she eventually and paradoxically might envy in her serfs, who probably led much more interesting lives.
One is never happy with what one has ...
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