Posts Tagged ‘Victorian Russia’
Most of the illustrations above depict the more typical judicial flogging of Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries, but the first two illustrate a rather more unusual procedure. Picture this, if you will, a group of men and sometimes women milling around in a large room, perhaps having paid a small coin. On one […]
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