Not everyone can do the work on the organization of the security of the authoritarian regime.It requires special personal qualities, most of which has always been cruel.Tiran by their nature need fear, this feeling is based on its limitless power.
Whatever was hard, the service is always someone who is willing to bear it.Because behind every dictator with unlimited powers looming silhouette inconspicuous head of the secret police.In the documentary footage of the 30s behind a gray tunic Stalin no-no, and flicker Yezhov absurd figure in a tunic belted with a wide shoulder strap officer, but because of Hitler's sloping shoulder flash nez "glorious Henry."
was someone to keep an eye and hunched back of Ivan IV, not without reason, surnamed the Terrible.Gregory Belsky reliably provides him the opportunity to reign without fear of unrest and conspiracy.Biography Malyuta Skuratov, and that was the "stage name" of the head of the security forces at the court of the terrible autocrat, is typical of the torturers of any era.
Rod Gregory was either out of Smolensk, either from Pereslavl.Difficulties in determining the origin of the outstanding executioner consist in the fact that for him to be judged from indirect sources.Personal affairs during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, do not start, and the record, that is, the fixation of historical fact, in 1568 was generally prohibited by a special imperial decree.The observance of this order was to keep himself Belsky.Thus, biography Malyuta Skuratov, especially the events of his youth, seem vague.Presumably he had two brothers, James and unexpectedly, but their fate is unknown.
mistakenly believe that Gregory (Malyuta - a nickname meaning "undersized" and the word "Skurat" translated into modern language as a rough-made leather, obviously an allusion to the unhealthy complexion) created a secret police of Ivan the Terrible, a kindspecial forces, typing in a brutal and unscrupulous people.It's not a career, he has already done in this state body created by Alexey Basmanov, Vasily Yuriev and Athanasius Vyazemsky.These three gentleman declared a kind of competition, which took the twelve thousand volunteers, so with the staff for the future security agency had no problems.The number of vacancies initially identified 570 staff units.One of them took Malyuta Skuratov.Oprichnina first took it cool, the position was low, only the sexton.
However, the natural cruelty contributed to the promotion of the career ladder.In Gubin, patrimony fallen into disfavor Boyar Chelyadnina-Fedorov sexton "trimmed" (so-called extrajudicial enforcement of the sentence) just 39 people.And after he scored also in the delivery of women to the highest court, designed to comfort the king's perverted, biography Malyuta Skuratov made a sharp turn.Together with Ivan the Terrible, he began to take part in the torture, he was charged did not arrest anyone, and the king's cousin, Prince Staritskogo.
It is possible that some of the plots were inspired by or staged by the security chiefs to once again prove their necessity and usefulness.The enthusiasm of the new chief of the secret police went so far that he was engaged in favorite business with little or no rest.House Malyuta Skuratov became a branch of his workplace.The most cynical of the killings, which he made for his full professional life achievements, was the murder of Metropolitan Philip, fearlessly stood up to the king's will.
In Stalin's biography Malyuta Skuratov undergone certain editing, through which historians 30s tried to create an image of Ivan the Terrible as a strict, but generally positive ruler and statesman.If this view of historical events security issues had to deal with a stern, strong-willed, but in general pretty.Death Malyuta during the storming of the castle Weissenstein become like the heroic end of life "outstanding figure of the era."
In fairness it should be noted unselfishness Gregory Malyuta Skuratov-Belsky.Wealth he has not acquired, the widow of Ivan IV, even his designated pension, which is not usually done.
