The whole truth about the Bloody mistress: the story of Darya Saltykova, a noblewoman of dosugovyy

Bloody landowner, the dragon lady, Noblewoman torturous... has been called Daria Saltykov, spooky ways to death tortured dozens of peasants. Series "Bloody lady" from the channel "Russia 1" tells the story of the first known serial killers in Russia, the landowner Darya Saltykov, brutally killed about a hundred peasants. As per the documents of the XVIII century about the lady was only a sentence (Catherine II ordered to destroy other evidence), the authors of the series were free to think out the image Saltychikha and her biography. Turned romance with a very dosed element of sadism.

But as was also the case in reality? We offer you to think about real life Saltychikha — "freak of the human race." Someone actually loved, hated and killed a legendary lady.

As soon as contemporaries and descendants may be called Daria Saltykov, went down in history under the name Saltychikha: "black widow" and "black Fox", "Satan in a skirt", "noblewoman-sadist", "serial killer", "bloody lady", "the Trinity cannibal", "the Marquis de Sade in a woman's appearance"... Her name many decades said with a shudder, and the Empress Catherine the Great in the judgment of the villain that she has personally rewritten several times, even avoided calling this woman a monster "she."

Actress Yuliya Snigir in the image Saltychikha in the TV series "Bloody lady"

The story told by Director Yegor by Analginum in the new series "Bloody lady", similar to what happened in real life, but in many ways softer than the harsh reality. Because if the Director filmed the worst of atrocities, which, as the story goes, was perpetrated Saltychikha, the film is likely to simply be banned.

11 Mar 1730 in the family pillar nobleman Nikolai Ivanov was born a girl called Daria. Grandfather Daria Avtonom Ivanov, was a prominent statesman of the era of Peter the Great, and left his descendants a rich legacy.

How did real childhood Dashi Saltykova — is not known. According to the version shown in the film, it was unhappy. After the death of his wife Anna Nikolay Ivanov sent the daughter to a convent with the phrase "possessed by demons".

François Hubert Drouet, "Portrait of Countess Darya chernyshovoy-Saltykova", 1762. This portrait has long been considered a portrait of Saltychikha

In his youth, a girl from a prominent noble family was known as the most beautiful and in addition, stood out extraordinary piety. Although the actual appearance Saltychikha — the secret behind seven seals. What she looked like — is not known, and those portraits, which for many years was considered to be portraits Saltychikha, in fact, represent other women.

Often the portraits of Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova had taken many portraits of her namesake and cousin by marriage Darya Petrovna Saltykova, née Chernysheva, wife of field Marshal Ivan Petrovich Saltykov, who was under the age of landowner for 9 years.

Another portrait of authorship Drouet, wrongly recognized for a portrait of Darya Saltykova, is actually a portrait of artist's wife

In 20 years, Daria married a captain of the life guards cavalry regiment Gleb Alexeyevich Saltykov. The Saltykov family was even more noble than race Ivanov, the nephew Gleb Nikolai Saltykov Saltykova will be his serene Highness Prince, field Marshal and is a prominent courtier during the reign of Catherine the great, Paul I and Alexander I.

Soon, Daria wife gave birth to two sons, Theodore and Nicholas, who, as then was, from birth recorded in the service in the guards regiments.

Fedor Lavrov in the image Gleb Saltykov in the TV series "Bloody lady" (real images husband Saltychikha not preserved)

It was a typical marriage for their time — two of a noble family came together to increase wealth. Not much evidence of hatred for her husband, and of adultery on the part of the young wife, the most likely shown in the movie "Bloody lady", historians are not caught. Similarly, it remains unknown what the head of the family died after six years of marriage, leaving the 26-year-old widow with two sons at the hands — and a lot of money. Subsequently, there were versions that Saltykov got rid herself of her husband, but they are historians seem to be groundless.

After her husband's death Darya Saltykova was fabulously rich. The reason was that her mother (who, in contrast to the serial version, was not the maniac-murderer) and grandmother lived in a monastery and abandoned the family fortune.

So in 26 years young, the mother of two sons became the sole owner of six hundred peasants in the suburban estates, located on the territory of the settlement Mosrentgen and Metropolitan area Warm Camp. Town house Saltychikha in Moscow was on the corner of Bolshaya Lubyanka and Kuznetsk Bridge. Was a lady and distant estates in Vologda and Kostroma provinces.

Widowed Darya Saltykova, of course, interest in the opposite sex is not lost. There is evidence that she was having an affair with a relative of her husband Sergei Saltykov. In the TV series "Bloody lady" he played the role of Peter Rykov. I must say, it later became one of the favorites of Empress Catherine II. In addition, some historians suggest that he is the biological father of Paul I.

Saltychikha lover Sergei Saltykov / Petr Rykov in the image of Sergei Saltykov in the TV series "Bloody lady"

The widow led a secular lifestyle and at the same time was known as a very pious — a few times a year on a pilgrimage to the shrines, did not spare money for the Church. About the terrible "fun" Saltychikha became known only a few years later. In the meantime, returning home after the service, she sat in a chair in the middle of the yard, to make "righteous judgment" over the serfs.

The stories of the witnesses, their sadistic Saltychikha started to show after about six months after her husband's death. The film "Bloody lady" shows that the first signs of mental illness manifested the landowner in early childhood — but historians such evidence was found. However, the Director said that he did not aim to make a historical film, "Bloody lady" is a rather scary story.

Apparently, Darya Saltykova start "to get you out of mind" following the death of a spouse. Version of modern psychiatry, she was epileptic psychosis — a mental disorder in which a person often have bouts of sadism and unwarranted aggression.

Augustin Ritt Christians, "Portrait of Countess Darya Petrovna Saltykova", 1794, another portrait allegedly Saltychikha

First claim on its atrocities, which were already far not a single, dated 1757 year. Every year Saltychikha became more cruel and sophisticated. The stories of the serfs, she flogged them to death — and if I was tired, handed the whip or whip assistants — the soldier, pulled in women, the hair on your head or set fire to them, denounced the ears of the young with a hot iron, scald with boiling water, frozen to death in the cold or in the pond of ice in the winter, even buried alive.

"Saltychikha", Bee V. N.

Especially Saltychikha loved to torture and torment brides who are preparing for the wedding. She arranged the whole bloody represent that always ended in death of young girls, istechenii whip. The coachman, a groom and a couple of henchmen under the strict eye of the bloody lady tried hard. It is well known that its skin is more expensive. Fear and horror reigned in the noble home: a short night seemed to serfs Paradise. And each of them with a sinking heart, waiting for the morning. Awakened Saltychikha always gets off on the wrong foot and will definitely find a reason to pull out a tuft of hair at the passing girls or burn her face with a hot iron or with hot pincers.

Aleksandra Ursulyak in the image Saltychikha in the TV series "Ekaterina. Rise"

One day, in September 1761, cannibal as a "prelude" to the next execution of his subjects beaten to death with a log boy Lukyan Mikheeva. Beautiful girls gave Saltychikha special hatred. For example, she strove to beat pregnant women in the belly, poured with boiling water and with hot pincers tore their victims ' ears. Sometimes she seemed a little since then, as Saltychikha ordered fortress Thekla buried in the ground alive. A small but significant touch to the portrait of a killer: all of the victims were necessarily funeral the priest of the landowner. What he felt at this ceremony, it is unknown...

Illustration work Kurdyumov to the encyclopedic edition of "the Great reform", which depicts torture Saltychikha "in soft tones"

Under the hot hand of the landowner once almost got famous nobleman. Surveyor Nikolai Tolstoy — the grandfather of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev — a long time was her lover, but then decided to marry another. For which he paid...

Vlad Sokolovsky in the image of Nicholas Tyutchev in the TV series "Bloody lady" (real portraits of the surveyor is not preserved)

This story happened at the beginning of 1762. The landowner had an affair with engineer Nikolai Tyutchev. In the end, the man did not survive violent temper Saltychikha and decided to leave. He wooed her wringing the Tyutchev, she said Yes. Young began to think about the wedding, and Saltykov — murder.

So, in the night from 12 to 13 February, she bought gunpowder and sulfur and sent a groom Roman Ivanov to burn the house of a former lover. Only required to see that the couple was at home and was burned alive. The man did not fulfill orders, fearing to kill the nobleman. For this he was severely beaten. The second time the landowner sent two: Ivanova and some Leontiev. However, this time they did not dare return to Saltychikha. The men were beaten with a whip, but alive.

The third time she sent just three serfs. Tyutchevs went in the Bryansk district on the estate of the bride Ovstug. Their path lay by and Large Kaluga road, where they were ambushed. The serfs had to shoot them, and then finish off with sticks. But someone warned young people about the ambush, and in the end, they ran away the night in a roundabout way.

On one landowner complaints fell down, but Saltychikha belonged to a famous noble family, who also was Governor-General of Moscow. All cases of atrocities were resolved in her favor. Moreover, often occurred on the contrary, the Complainants returned to the mansion, where they were beaten with whips and exiled to Siberia.

Only two peasants, Sam Martynov and Ermolai Ilyin, wives, which was brutally murdered Saltychikha, lucky. In 1762 they were able to transmit the complaint just came to the throne of Catherine II, who decided to use the case sadistic as illustrative of the process. It marked a new era of law and demonstrated the Moscow nobility the willingness of the authorities to fight abuses in the field.

Ekaterina II / severe anusauskaite in the image of Catherine II in the TV series "Bloody lady"

The investigation Saltychikha lasted six years. It turned out that she was tortured and killed at least 38 people. Other cases of missing more than a hundred peasants could not write on account of the landowner. But it was enough to Empress personally signed the verdict Darya Saltykova. The Senate, which was by law to render a verdict, refused to do so.

The worst rumor that spread about the landowner Saltykova — that she drank the blood of young girls and was a cannibal. This, they say, was due to the fact that bodies or graves of the majority of souls who were missing during the investigation, which lasted more than five years, discover and failed. The whole thing was built on the stories of the serfs.

Frame from the series "Bloody lady"

There is a theory that high-profile case Saltychikha was beneficial to Catherine the great and her supporters to mentally weaken Saltykov and to avoid even the hypothetical possibility to take the Russian throne, the representatives of the German dynasty of the Guelph to which it belonged was tragically killed three Russian emperors (Peter II, Peter III and Ivan VI) and which was in relationship with Saltykove. It is therefore possible that the story of the crimes of the landowner could inflate.

Many influential relatives Darya Saltykova, including the Governor of Moscow and of field Marshal, did all in his power to avoid the death penalty. Nevertheless, the decision of the Empress was harsh. His decree, she decided to continue "to call this monster the man".

In September 1768 Catherine II several times rewrote the sentence. Four survived her handwritten draft of the document. In the final Saltychikha was deprived of the noble title and sentenced to life imprisonment in an underground prison with no light and human interaction.

Saltychikha was taken to the square, on the scaffold she was tied by a chain to the pillory and read Royal paper. And before it was mercilessly flogged, the executioner, the priest and two handy Darya Saltykova. After a while, she was put into a black carriage and drove to St. John the Baptist monastery. There it was waiting for "repentance" camera — almost the pit, which is not penetrated a ray of light. Only when the prisoner brought food, allowed the light of the candle-end was placed next to the bowl on the table.

Actress Yuliya Snigir in the image Saltychikha in the TV series "Bloody lady"

After ten years Saltychikha transferred into a stone outbuilding of the Cathedral Church, where there was a small barred window. There were rumors that Darya Saltykova somehow managed to seduce the soldiers guarding the prison, and 50 years have his child. And, they say, a random lover were subjected to public flogging and sent to a penal company. Note that at no time, neither the investigation nor on the scaffold — Saltychikha did not admit his guilt and repent. And in her face, scaring even the experienced staff will walk serene and triumphant smile.

John the Baptist monastery, which concluded Daria Saltykov

Surprisingly, the gas chamber, distinguished by excellent health, lived to be 71 years. In the last years of his life a prisoner already been acting like a real crazy — loud swearing, spitting, trying to poke the onlookers with a stick. Buried Daria Saltykov in the cemetery of the Donskoy monastery, close to his family.

The noble Russian gentry shamefully turned a blind eye to the acts of the followers Saltychikha. For example, the landowner Vera Sokolova, in September 1842, was beaten to death by Amateur girl Nastasya, and in the Tambov province as the peasants feared the wife of a nobleman koshkarova. This fashionable lady, shining on the balls and adored in his estate to personally whip whip "rough men" and "stupid women". But some Saltykov, the namesake Saltychikha, three years was kept in a cage beside the bed of the yard Barber. However, it is only a few documented cases, how many of them were actually scary to imagine.