True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia
This event has been relocated
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 4, 2010 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
On the morning of October 5, 1909, Russian newspaper readers awoke to learn of an especially horrific crime committed in Leshtukhov Alley, just across from A. S. Suvorin’s popular dramatic theater and a fifteen-minute walk from the city’s main artery, Nevskii Prospekt. The body of a man had been discovered in an apartment just off the Fontanka, but it had been so badly disfigured as to defy identification. The torso was found in the bed, stabbed through the heart. The head had been cut off and placed beside it. To stymie any possibilities of ready identification, the head had been scalped and the nose, eyelids, and lips sliced off. The nose had apparently rolled under the bed, but the other shavings had been burned with items of laundry. Ironically, the victim initially engendered an even bigger mystery than the murderer.
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