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Judicial Corporal Punishment Of Women: Illustrations

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Michele, this is a great pic! Could we see other of your drawings in the same style?

Unfortunately, as I said, almost all my old hand-drawn pictures are lost. I made them almost 30 years ago and eventually I scanned only a bunch of them.

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This one is from a book called "Tales of the Whip" published by B&D Pleasures in the early 1990s. I pulled out my copy and, unfortunately, it does not credit the illustrator. There are five illustrations, all seeming to be by the same person. The author is not named either.
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On 7/19 November 1889 Nadezhda Sigida, a 28-year-old Russian revolutionary who was serving her eight years at hard labour in Siberia, was birched 100 times for slapping the Kara Prison warden in the face.

In the moments before the flogging, Sigida ‘declared that the punishment was the equivalent of death and lay down voluntarily beneath the birch’.​
These were not empty words. After she was returned to her cell later that day, Sigida and her three fellow prisoners, Kovalevskaya, Kaluzhskaya [Kalyuzhnaya - Marcius] and Smirnitskaya, poisoned themselves. Sigida died that evening, the others over the course of the following two days. When news of the flogging reached the political prisoners in Kara, the suicidal protests spread. Naum Gekker, a political exile who had already been released to settlement beyond the walls of the prison, shot himself but survived. Within a week, seven prisoners in the men’s prison had also attempted to overdose with morphine. More followed their example. In total, twenty prisoners took poison and six died.​

-- from The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (2016) by Daniel Beer.

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In 1930, this painting of Sigida became the last one created by the Russian artist Nikolay Kasatkin; as a matter of fact, he died in front of it -- he had been giving his comments on the painting to the museum visitors.

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Sigida's face in detail.
 
On 7/19 November 1889 Nadezhda Sigida, a 28-year-old Russian revolutionary who was serving her eight years at hard labour in Siberia, was birched 100 times for slapping the Kara Prison warden in the face.

Something more on this topic. Kajiragames depicted the punishment of two Russian revolutionaries (Anna Smirnova and Maria Spiridonova) in 1907 as "historical facts". I don't know if it was in reality, but one of these women, Maria Spiridonova, really was a famous revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party. It is known that after the Kara tragedy of 1889, in 1893 corporal punishment of women was forbidden in Russia. May be it was reintroduced later, after the 1905 revolution.
https://kajiragames.deviantart.com/gallery/39935970/Historical-Punishments
 

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Something more on this topic. Kajiragames depicted the punishment of two Russian revolutionaries (Anna Smirnova and Maria Spiridonova) in 1907 as "historical facts". I don't know if it was in reality, but one of these women, Maria Spiridonova, really was a famous revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party. It is known that after the Kara tragedy of 1889, in 1893 corporal punishment of women was forbidden in Russia. May be it was reintroduced later, after the 1905 revolution.
https://kajiragames.deviantart.com/gallery/39935970/Historical-Punishments
Actually they have modernized...:devil:
 
Something more on this topic. Kajiragames depicted the punishment of two Russian revolutionaries (Anna Smirnova and Maria Spiridonova) in 1907 as "historical facts". I don't know if it was in reality, but one of these women, Maria Spiridonova, really was a famous revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party. It is known that after the Kara tragedy of 1889, in 1893 corporal punishment of women was forbidden in Russia. May be it was reintroduced later, after the 1905 revolution.
https://kajiragames.deviantart.com/gallery/39935970/Historical-Punishments
Anything like this in 1907 would've been extrajudicial, Sigida was the last female political prisoner subjected to official corporal punishment in the Russian Empire. Between 1889 and 1893 some female common criminals were punished corporally.

Now, during the 1905-07 revolution a lot of stuff happened that was outside the law. Anna Smirnova draws a blank. Spiridonova, however, was in fact tortured after killing a tsarist official. She was beaten, her guards first kept putting their cigarettes out on her skin, including her breasts, then raped her. Her death sentence was commuted to life in prison, so she lived another day, only to be shot by the NKVD in 1941.

Welcome back, by the way!
 
I think the best illustrations and drawings on this subject were "Stig"! Black and white drawings. Made in very unique style!
 

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elephas, I hope you won't mind my posting a few drawings on this topic by someone whose work I really like, the Russian artist Andrew Wolkoff. He portrays the judicial and sometimes domestic punishment of women in Russian villages. For those who like his work, I have posted quite a few in my thread beginning here http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/slaves-treated-very-badly.5588/page-3#post-269932 and more on the last page of the thread.

Here is a small selection

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elephas, I hope you won't mind my posting a few drawings on this topic by someone whose work I really like, the Russian artist Andrew Wolkoff. He portrays the judicial and sometimes domestic punishment of women in Russian villages. For those who like his work, I have posted quite a few in my thread beginning here http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/slaves-treated-very-badly.5588/page-3#post-269932 and more on the last page of the thread.
Here is a small selection

Of course, I won't mind. ) Thanks for this post, many of Wolkoff's drawings are relevant to this topic.
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