Fyodor Raskolnikov
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Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov, real name Fyodor Ilyin, was an Old Bolshevik, politician, participant in the October Revolution, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets on the Caspian and the Balt
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Raskolnikov and his brother Alexander
Raskolnikov on the Mezhen ship, 1920
Defenestration
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Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the
Fyodor Raskolnikov
…Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Raskolnikov was admitted to a mental hospital because the signing of the pact was a severe shock to him. He promptly died from "falling out of a window" while staying in the hospital. According to the writer Nina Berberova, Raskolnikov committed suicide. This account was contested by Raskolnikov's wife…
Matthäus Merian's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague
The defenestration of the Biblical Queen Jezebel at Jezreel, by Gustave Doré
Giorgio Vasari's impression of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
A stuntman diving out a window