Pugachev's execution: function of equipment

[Edward M Dumanis]

I do not have Hingley's Russia, A Concise History but assumme that you see
the tool of "kolesovanije" that was used to for quatering.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, John Schillinger wrote:

>     Students in my Russia/US course have asked me to explain the
> function of a wheel suspended by four chains from a collar fitted to the
> top of a sharply-pointed post which is centered in a high execution
> platform  (pictured in Hingley's Russia, A Concise History, p. 90, which
> depicts Pugachev awaiting execution).  The wheel itself is high above
> the heads of the prisoner and the attending officials and clergy.  I
> have been unable to find a source that sheds light on this apparatus.
> Pugachev was reportedly drawn and quartered, but how this equipment was
> used for that purpose is  a mystery to me.
>     Can anyone enlighten me in time for an appropriately ghoulish
> Halloween lecture?
>
>     Thanks!  John Schillinger, American University
>
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