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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