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Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/culture/2001/05/29/news284/ Culture news, 29.05.2001 12:53 Torture instruments in Peter and Paul Fortress![]() Executions in the Middle Ages were a kind of public performances, and a death through cutting off of one's head was considered quite a merciful way of punishment, accessible only to noble criminals. The most dramatized exhibit in the exposition is "the Nuremberg maiden", a huge sarcophagus shaped as a female figure with numerous edges inside - they are located so that the vital organs of a victim in sarcophagus were not damaged. The agony of those sentenced to execution was supposed to be long and painful. Photo by N. Polinin, Interpress.
News source: RIA Novosti
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