Vlad II Dracula was born in November or December 1431 in Sighisoara, Transylvania. He was the son of Vlad II – the ruler of Transylvania and a Moldavian princess.
Dracula spent his childhood in Targovishte, the then capital of Wallachia. At the age of thirteen, his father sent him to Turkey as proof of his loyalty, where he spent four years of his life.
Ascension to the throne
Meanwhile, Hungary was preparing for war with the Turks, and Dracula’s father had to join the Crusade. He was killed by the Wallachian boyars on the orders of Janos Hunyada. In 1448, the Sultan freed Dracula and helped him regain the throne from Vladislav II. However, he ruled for only 6 years. His first goal was to take revenge on his father’s killers.
The elders were impaled, the rest he forced to make a grueling 80-kilometer walk. For those who survived, Dracula himself built a fortress-prison for himself near the Argesh River. Dracula mastered the special techniques of killing people: scalping, cooking, cutting off heads, blinding, smoking, frying, chopping, piercing with nails, burying alive, as well as cutting off ears, nose, limbs and genitals.
Although Dracula’s rule was based on violence, he created a law that no one broke. Severe punishments for theft, murder, and lying have cleansed society of outcasts.
Atrocities
He ordered the deputies of the Sultan, who did not take off their turbans, to greet Dracula with hairpins to their heads. He massacred criminals and political opponents en masse and committed countless atrocities.
The monstrous torment lasted for a long time, and the victim remained conscious almost to the end. It is said that the deposits around the castle of Vlad the Impaler were littered with a dismal harvest, and the farmer himself liked to stroll through this monstrous garden. It is not surprising that frightened people began to attribute to him such traits as a love of eating human flesh and drinking blood, a covenant with the devil, fear of holy water and the cross, so typical of vampire traits.
The vampire woman was also rightfully called the cruel Vlad, a princess from the Batory family. Obsessed with the desire to preserve eternal youth, she ordered the kidnapping of young girls in her castle. She then watched as they were executed under torture, and finally took a bath in their blood, hoping to absorb the life force of the murdered girls.
Thus, about forty women were killed, until the king himself put an end to this practice, ordering the arrest of the duchess. The trial did not take place because the Bator family was powerful and fearful of scandal. “Vampire”, however, lived her life in strict isolation, never regaining her freedom.
Several times a year, on the occasion of the holidays, Vlad invited all the beggars he came across to the castle courtyard. When, after the ceremony, the guests lay drunk, Vlad ordered them to be set on fire. No one survived.
Death of Dracula
In 1462, during a Turkish attack, Dracula’s wife committed suicide by throwing herself from a mountain into a river, thus escaping Turkish captivity. Vlad managed to escape using a secret passage carved at the top. With the help of the peasants, he went to the reigning king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, who had him arrested and imprisoned in the towers. Dracula stayed there for 12 years.
In 1476 Vlad invaded Wallachia and returned to the throne. A few months later, the Turks attacked. Dracula died during the fighting near Bucharest. Dracula’s body was buried in the Snagov Monastery, but an exhumation in 1931 confirmed the absence of a coffin in the tomb.
The vampire in this interpretation, both intimidating and sexually attractive, spawned a long line of similar vampires. In total, the figure of the Count of Transylvania appeared a hundred and fifty-six times on the silver screen, giving her a prominent place in the history of cinema, popular culture and … Guinness Book.
Crazy
Dracula was a very inventive person, he invented, for example, a machine for skinning people alive and another for cutting them into slices. But Peeling has always been Dracula’s favorite form of execution. Contrary to appearance, it was a very “technologically advanced” torture.
First, the person about to be impaled watched the whole spectacle—the preparation of the stake itself and the narrow stake (placed on top of the first) that was used to trap the condemned person by inserting it into the anus. It was the whole ceremony. The stake was planed from branches with numerous side shoots to make it look like a wooden saw that tore the human body. The stake was soaked in vinegar, dried and soaked again.
It was supposed to swell in the intestines. This execution had to be carried out by an exceptionally experienced executioner, because the slightest mistake when piercing the stake could lead to the death of the condemned, and this was not the point … “Master Little Good” carefully drove the stake along the spine, carefully avoiding the blade of important internal organs. The stake pierced the peritoneum, which caused severe internal bleeding that could lead to quick death.
For this reason, the tortured was given a decoction of wild berries and mint, which increased blood clotting and increased sensitivity to pain. Impaled, the convict could live for three days without losing consciousness … For this reason, the tortured was given a decoction of wild berries and mint, which increased blood clotting and increased sensitivity to pain.
Loving to watch other people’s pain, Dracula ate most of his food outdoors, among the forest and smoke. Dracula killed nobles and simpletons with the same pleasure. He once impaled five hundred Wallachian officials and nobles because they could not name from memory the number of Dracula’s subjects in the lands they ruled. On another occasion, he presented the share of six hundred gypsies trading in Borashuv … He also originally solved the problem of the unemployed and vagrants – he invited them to group feasts, and then, when the company was very drunk, by order of Vlad, the doors and windows were closed, and the whole building was set on fire.
The annals also mention that Dracula cut the breasts and bellies of women with his own hands, the envoys of the Sultan, who did not want to take off their turbans in front of him, nailed them to his head with long nails, and Vlad’s Turkish captives skinned their legs, rubbed them with salt and let them lick cattle.
Dracula was killed at the end of 1476.
