How Peter Cut off Heads.
So"mk of the recent execution* in Itussia recall a very striking incident of the reign of Potor the Great. The Nihilism of that poiiod wan represented by the revolt of the Guard, whioh Peter quelled and punished wiih mercileaa cc verity, beheading a man for every turrot on the palace wall, which overlooked the pi hoc of execution. The headsman being faligued with the butchery, Peter himself took his place, And nlruck off twelve heads with his own hand, taling a glass of wine after ouob. The thirteenth wns a han-JHome joung poldior, nicknamed Orel (Ejgte), who, pushin:; hflida his predecessors headlens corpse, crieH, with a laogh : " Come, brother ; it is my turn for an ai diuico with the Czar now 1 " )'< tir, Htruok with thin reckle^n gallantry, pt-rc-uiitil and proruotud him. Hm dt-ecend nnu aru now among the leading nobility of th« oouatxy.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 26 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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149How Peter Cut off Heads. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 26 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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