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EPISODE
The real-life story of a hereditary noblewoman Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, who due to her cruelty went down in history as a bloody lady and can be considered the first and the most prolific Russian serial killer. In 1764, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for numerous murders and tortures over her serfs. According to official data, the landowner executed 139 people; almost all of them were women. Early widowed, the sadist became a hostage to fits of rage, during which she brutally beat her own servants for the slightest fault, especially preferring logs as a weapon. The queen Catherine II put an end to this tyranny by sending the murderer to the monastery prison, where she spent 33 years until her death.
November 12, 1995 in Tver, Tverskaya oblast, Russia
10 December 1946, Vyazniki, Vyaznikovskiy rayon, Vladimirskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
November 15, 1975 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
August 8, 2009 in Russia
April 17, 2008 in Russia
May 29, 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
February 3, 1962 in Former USSR
2 June 1983, Donskoy, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
May 22, 1994 in Pyatigorsk, Russia
December 30, 1981 in Novgorod, Novgorodskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Velikiy Novgorod, Russia]

