Russia -- History -- Catherine II, 1762-1796 -- Fiction; Russia -- History -- Elizabeth, 1741-1762 -- Fiction
The knout whistles as it whirls through the air, the noble blood flows
in streams. She makes no complaint, she prays. Only once, overcome by
pain, only once she loudly screams: “_Mercy, mercy for the daughter of
an empress!_”
End of Project Gutenberg’s The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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