1835.] Suicides and Murders in Russia in 1831-32. 

 Persons murdered by the knife or hatchet. 



183 



A very common method of murdering is, however, by 

 strangling or choaking. In ten governments, twenty men, 

 six women, and three children, suffered in this way. Only 

 two cases of poisoning occurred. 



The following table embraces in one view the various 

 descriptions of murders : — 



Killed by fist or bludgeon . 

 Killed with knife or hatchet 

 Strangled or suffocated . . 



Drowned 



Killed with fire-arms . . . 

 Poisoned 



With regard to the state of families, we find that in 

 Koursk, a father was assassinated by his two sons in 1822; 

 a mother by her son, at Kalouga, in 1822. Five husbands 

 were murdered by their wives, and twenty-three wives by 

 their husbands. 



At Koursk, a son was assassinated by his father in 1822, 

 the only instance in ten governments. At Toula, in 1821, 

 two brothers were killed by their brothers ; and at Orel, 

 in 1822, a similar instance of one person occurred. Among 

 the clergy, at Vladimir, the wife of a deacon, in 1821 , killed 

 her son ; in the government of Moscow the wife of an inferior, 

 and in Toula, in 1822, the daughter of a priest killed their 

 illegitimate children. In Moscow, in 1822, an uncle mur- 

 dered his nephew. The same year, at Kalouga, a nephew 

 killed his uncle ; and at Koursk, in 1821, a grandfather his 



