3 year old hanged in public
07/16/1614 AD executed
Three-year-old Ivan was publicly hanged near the Serpukhov Gate. According to one account, he was too light for the drop to break his neck and died slowly of strangulation.
When Tsar Michael I of Russia was elected, the citizens of Astrakhan wanted the pretender and his family to leave the town. In 1614 an uprising of townspeople was aimed solely at capturing the family. They fled into the steppes to escape.
A month later, in May 1614, after failing to gather support for a Cossack uprising, they were captured by the Cossacks near the Yaik River and handed over to the government.
Marina was imprisoned in the Kolomna Kremlin tower and Ivan and Zarutsky were brought to Moscow. Zarutsky was impaled. Marina five months after the deaths of her son and husband.
Lattitude: 55.7558° N
Longitude: 37.6172° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Subjects Who or What executed?
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Russia Nation -
Michael of Russia (Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov, Михаи́л Фёдорович Рома́нов) Tsar of Russia 161...
Objects To Whom or What was executed?
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Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich (Ivaska the Little Rebel/Criminal) claimant to the th...
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