Small excerpts from the history of the 17th century in Russia. The excerpts are not mine.
Alexei's visions were interrupted, and he finally woke up. Of course, managed to learn not everything, but the main thing - the impostor will lift the siege of Moscow and goes to Tula. More precisely, not even the tsarik, but Mr. Lisovsky. In the future this may lead to a permanent threat to the Russian army from the south.
Therefore it is necessary to move to Tula and preempt the maneuver of Lisovsky. Second, a snake, or rather an unusually beautiful snake, has infiltrated into the entourage of Tsar Shuisky. Similar to Alena in her fighting skills, but still different. More aristocratic with facial features closer to the Teutonic than the Slavic type, and hair immediately causing an association with drifts, Artika, and the snow queen. Alyona on the contrary, her hair is like the sun and seems not icy, but hot.
But both girls are skaters and very beautiful, just a miracle. No, he won't give Elizabeth away. So in this case, a torture cellar and a brutal execution awaits her. In these harsh times women were not treated with ceremony, maybe even more harshly than men.
Alexei suddenly imagined Elizabeth naked and on the rack, the executioner whipping the angelic body with a whip, and a predatory fire blazing under her bare feet.
You can not understand whether he really wants this, or vice versa, such a picture inspires disgust and horror. In any case, my heart beats harder, and in my body, the heat of excitement.
Then he remembered the blond Elizabeth. The girl was eventually caught and ended up in a torture cellar.
She was unceremoniously led into a room where pincers and hooks were hung on the walls and fireplaces were blazing.
There they stripped her of her clothes and strung her up on a rack. Senior clerk, seeing how the beauty hung, angrily hissed:
- Call the accomplices, whore!
And he greedily looked at the naked beautiful body.
Elizabeth proudly remained silent. Then the clerk in a dry, barking tone ordered:
- Put her feet in the stocks and hang up the weights!
The executioners rushed to carry out the order.
They put a heavy block on the bare feet of the beauty and iron weights on it. The increased weight made Elizabeth stretch out on the rack and grit her teeth in pain. The iron rings dug viciously into her ankles and slashed her skin until it bled. Elizabeth gritted her teeth and endured. She kept her composure during the interrogation.
This is a Russian woman - she could stop a horse at a gallop.
The clerk coldly ordered:
- Ten strokes of the whip with saving.
The tall executioner smirked fleshily.
The whip whistled, collapsed searing and piercing, on the girl's back. Elizabeth, breathing heavily, endured the blows without a moan. Streaks of purple swelled on her white back.
The executioner's fat face showed disappointment.
The clerk repeated, raising the question slightly:
- Name the accomplices, the thief!
The flame of the torch trembled.
Elizabeth responded with only contemptuous silence.
The clerk hissed:
- Five strokes without saving!
The executioner put all his weight into the swing.
The skin burst and blood flowed. The blond girl was left hanging on the rack, with her weight, her joints twisted, and her back bloodied.
But still, not a moan, not a cry.
Then the executioner, obeying the clerk's sign, drew a poker from the fireplace and held it to the maiden's bare heel. Elizabeth, at last, could not bear the touch of the red-hot metal to the sensitive spot and cried out softly. But with an effort of will, biting her lip until it bled, she silenced herself. Only sweat mixed with blood trickled down her moistened chest and back.
It smelled like a kebab of tender veal.
The executioner professionally ran the red-hot poker across the girl's bare feet. So desperately she endured, but did not utter a word. Until, at last, her pale head shook, passing out. The doctor felt the girl's pulse and recommended that the torture be suspended.
The clerk reluctantly agreed.