An Interesting Link for You To:  Mindshadow July 19, 2000 The paranoia of tyrannical Russian Tsar Ivan The Terrible reached a climax in the destruction of the city of Novgorod. Ivan had an idea that Novgorod intended treason, so he marched there with an army, burning, raping and looting along the way. He arrived at the city in early 1570, and had a timber wall built around it to prevent any inhabitants from fleeing. Then, for the next five weeks, he directed an orgy of sadism worthy of Dracula. Every day several thousand inhabitants were tortured to death in the presence of the Tsar and his depraved son Ivan. All kinds of refinements were invented: husbands and wives were roasted or beaten to death in one another's presence; children were murdered in front of their mothers. More than 60,000 people were murdered - more than in any one of Dracula's orgies of violence. This murderous yet truly morbid fact was culled from The Mammoth Book Of The History Of Murder. From:  ~Vamp de Mystere~ Morbid Fact of the Day Reply with a Card