Queen Anna of Russia is famous for her cruelty. What tricks has she used?

In the early 18th century, Queen Anna of Russia was famous for her cruelty, and she had many strange ideas. She often came up with some strange tricks to punish her subjects who occasionally made mistakes. Most of these punishments are cruel and inhuman, but no one dares to openly resist because of her arrogance.

Once, three Russian aristocrats made a small mistake, and she punished them for living like hens for a week.

She ordered three big baskets filled with straw, with 12 newly-born eggs in the center.

Then, she put the three big chicken nests in the center of a hall in the palace, and ordered the three illegal aristocrats to crouch in the nests. They wore feather clothes and crouched on the chicken nests half-way. They should not crush their eggs, or they would be executed.

These three Russian aristocrats spent seven days in a henhouse in such pain. However, this is not the most bizarre method.

She used the strangest punishment method on Prince Michael.

Prince Michael married an Italian woman while traveling overseas, which made Queen Anna very angry. To show her displeasure, she stripped the prince of his noble title and ordered him to play a clown in the palace.

worse is yet to come. When Michael's wife died, the queen found a new wife for him and arranged an odd wedding and honeymoon? This may be the strangest and most humiliating wedding and honeymoon trip ever.

Anna ordered the prince to marry a maid who is considered to be the ugliest in Russia. After marrying this unfortunate wife, the prince has to endure the humiliation arranged by the queen for him.

At the wedding, the first people to enter the auditorium were a group of deformed people. Then, pigs, sheep and dogs pulled the cart, and some beggars and vagrants sat on it.

The unhappy bride and groom were the last to enter the stadium. They were locked in a cage on the back of an old elephant.

After such a weird wedding, there was a chaotic wedding breakfast. Then, the circus wedding procession marched across the street and came to the icy Neva River. Anna has first sent someone to build a palace made entirely of ice on the river bank.

This palace is 8 feet long and 32 feet high, all made of ice. There is a honeymoon suite in the palace, with a four-legged big bed, pillows and quilts? It's just that all of them are carved out of ice.

Cheered by the drunken guests, the unfortunate newlyweds were sent to the bridal chamber by the guards and forced to lie on the ice bed for the first night. The guards were ordered to stand outside the ice gate to prevent them from escaping.

Miraculously, the newly-married couple survived this extremely cold wedding night, and nine months later, the ugly wife of Prince Michael gave birth to twins for him, and the whole family lived a happy life.