Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova (née Ivanova, commonly known as Saltychikha; Russian: Дарья Николаевна Салтыкова) (1730 - 1801) was a serial killer.
Saltykova was a young noblewoman from Moscow who became notorious for torturing and killing over 100 of her serfs, mostly women and girls. She was a sadist who enjoyed physically abusing her servants.
Saltykova married young and was widowed by the age of 26. With her husband's death, she inherited the su...
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Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova (née Ivanova, commonly known as Saltychikha; Russian: Дарья Николаевна Салтыкова) (1730 - 1801) was a serial killer.
Saltykova was a young noblewoman from Moscow who became notorious for torturing and killing over 100 of her serfs, mostly women and girls. She was a sadist who enjoyed physically abusing her servants.
Saltykova married young and was widowed by the age of 26. With her husband's death, she inherited the substantial estate, where she lived with her two young sons and a substantial number of serfs. Becoming the undivided mistress of her estate allowed Saltykova to torture and murder serfs with no one the wiser.
Many early complaints to authorities about the deaths at the Saltykova estate were ignored, or resulted in punishment to the complainants, because Saltykova was well connected with holders of power at the royal court.
Eventually, however, relatives of the murdered women were able to bring a petition before Empress Catherine II. Catherine...
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