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Troublemakers: Darya Saltykova

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Womanica - A Woman's Story About a Hero

Daria salticova became infamous for torturing and murdering the serfs who worked on her estate. Her story shocked society and highlighted the grave injustices many nobles inflicted on serfs at the time. During her reign of terror, daria killed as many as a hundred and 38 people, almost all of them young women,. Some of them pregnant, she was angry at their inability to keep the house as clean as she wanted. Though she made up many of the so called offences., Daria felt as though she was powerful because of her social status. Thus why shouldn't she wield that power societa power is also how daria got away with her crime for so many years.

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