For nearly 400 years of reign, Russian tsars have turned the Russian empire into one of the largest empires that ever existed in history.In order to strengthen power and expand the territory, the territory of Russian Tsar used harsh methods of torture that so far are mentioned when many people are frightened.Among the Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible is well known for its horrific torture method when roasting his enemies in a giant pan.
Using leather whips that tie a piece of iron in the head to torture prisoners is the torture method chosen by Peter the Great.In addition, the Tsar also devised other horrific tortures that made him suffer in extreme physical pain such as: a whip that tied a sharp 1.3 cm long knife into the prison body. multiply, use red burning iron rods to the offender.
Although he was the supreme ruler of Russia, he was the boyar (the highest noble of Russia).In order to scramble for power, aristocratic factions are constantly fighting, slaughtering each other.
From a very young age, Peter the Great witnessed the soldiers holding the dance to slaughter his mother and relatives in the palace.
When he was 8 years old, Ivan the Terrible underwent the boyar poisoning his mother.Even when he was enthroned, he also suffered the regency of some boyar.During the length of the Russian Empire's calendar, not many Tsar was killed while sitting on the throne.For example, Feodor II sat on the throne seven weeks before being murdered.Tsar Peter III was set up by his wife, Catherine the Great, to murder in 1763.
Many Russian Tsar became cruel tyrants, even paranoid.Ivan the Terrible has raged and killed his son during the fight.He even beat his daughter-in-law to miscarry because she did not match her dress style.
As the head of the country, not many Russian Tsar had a tragic fate since childhood.Tsar Ivan VI was enthroned at 2 months old but only one year later he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth and came to power.
Not only that, after being overthrown, Ivan VI was ordered to be held in solitary confinement by the new Tsar when he was 4 years old and imprisoned in a windowless room and banned from talking to guards for 20 years.