This entry in our Corpses Strewn series on the October 1698 extirpation of the Streltsy is courtesy of the diaries of Austrian diplomat Johann Georg Korb, an eyewitness to the events.
To prove to all the people how holy and inviolable are those walls of the city [of Moscow], which the Strelitz rashly meditated scaling in a sudden assault, beams were run out from all the embrasures in the walls near the gates, on each of which two rebels were hanged. This day beheld about two hundred and fifty die that death. There are few cities fortified with as many palisades as Moscow has given gibbets to her guardian Strelitz.
On this day..
- 1647: Francesco Toraldo
- 1773: Levi Ames, Boston burglar
- 1826: Seventy-two Janissaries
- 1898: George Clark, fratricide
- 1573: Hugh Cahun, unjustly
- 2009: Soheila Ghadiri
- 1621: Rodrigo Calderon, ambitious
- 1865: An unnamed Obeah man
- 1803: Thomas Russell, the man from God knows where
- 1869: Charles Carpentier
- 1865: Mexican Republican officers, under the Black Decree
- 1407: Chen Zuyi, Zheng He's prisoner