Russia
- Stenka Razin (1671) – Quartered alive in Moscow for Cossack revolution
- Mary Hamilton (lady in waiting) (1719) – Executed for infanticide and slandering Catherine I of Russia
- Yemelyan Pugachev (1775) – Executed in Moscow for insurrection by Catherine II of Russia
- Yevgeny Rodionov (1996) – Beheaded by Chechen terrorists
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Famous quotes containing the word russia:
“To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)