Everything about The Massacre Of Novgorod totally explained
The
Massacre of Novgorod occurred in the city of
Novgorod,
Russia in
1570. The massacre started on
January 9, and went on to
February 12.
The classic version claimed that
Ivan the Terrible was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to
Poland, and led an army to Novgorod to stop them on
January 2. Ivan's soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son.
However, some modern researchers claim that in fact the massacre wasn't politically charged, but was done to prevent the
plague which came to Novgorod through
Europe from spreading to the rest of
Russia.
The official death toll named 1,500 of Novgorod's nobility and mentioned about the same number of others. Modern Russian researchers estimate number of victims in a range from 2,500 up to 12,000. (After the famine and epidemics of 1560s the population of Novgorod didn't exceed 10,000-20,000.) Having investigated the report of the leader of
oprichniks Malyuta Skuratov and commemoration lists (
sinodiki), R. Skrynnikov considers that the number of victims was 2–3 thousand .
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