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  1. Apollinary Vasnetsov’s 1911 painting “The street in the town”: people fleeing at the arrival of the Oprichniki (inspired by the opera The Oprichnik by Tchaikovsky)

    Massacre of Novgorod
    Location: Novgorod, Russia
    Date: 2 January – 12 February 1570
    Attack type: Massacre
    Deaths: 2,000–15,000
    Perpetrators: Ivan the Terrible and the oprichniki

    #Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod