They did not restrain their unreasonable desires.
Wise rulers has always been considered a grace for the country. But often it so happened that the monarchs were remembered by the descendants of his folly. Some fun, clownish arranging the wedding, others have created an elite “special forces”, and others recovering delinquent to the light on a powder keg. This review presents specific entertainment of those in power.
Caligula
The Roman Emperor Gaius Caligula is known for its incredible orgies and extravagant reign. So Caligula loved his horse Incitatus that declared him a citizen of Rome and made Senator. Horse stitched blanket resembling senatorial garb, and has allocated a special place in the Senate. One day the Emperor ordered to build a bridge with a length of 3 kilometers to be happy just to gallop across it on horseback. Yet his plan was to build a Palace on his horse, but this is not true, because Caligula was killed by conspirators-the Praetorian guard.
Frederick William I
Passion of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I was the army. It got to the point that the Governor decided to create an elite squad of the Potsdam Giants. The king gathered soldiers very tall. The most stalwart in the squad was an Irish mercenary (2 m 17 cm). Frederick William I even tried to do selection: he sought out tall men, divorce their wives, if they were of small stature, and forcibly married to tall girls. It is noteworthy that the Potsdam Giants never entered the field of battle, because they would become an easy target. The king liked to watch as these soldiers marched on the parade ground. By the way, the growth of the king himself was quite modest – only 160 cm.
Ivan The Terrible
Entertainment Ivan the terrible were that close from them, the blood froze in my veins. Once at 1 April 1575 the king put on the throne instead of himself baptized Tatar Simeon Bekbulatovich. The king with a sneer turned to the new “ruler”: “Sovereign Grand Prince Semion Bekbulatovich BCEAO rusii iwaniec Vasiliev with their kids, AVENCOM Yes Fedora, brow beaten”. It lasted almost a year, and the Prince did not know what time to expect to catch Ivan. This behavior of the king was due to the fact that he predicted the death on the throne in that year. So Ivan the terrible allegedly cheated death.
And all the king loved to be creative executions. Once boyar Golokhvastova tied to a barrel of gunpowder and launched into the sky. The king only grinned, saying, it’s faster to heaven will fall.
Anna Ioannovna
Anna loved to play on the guilty courtiers. All who fell into disgrace, became jesters. Once Mikhail Alexandrovich Golitsyn fell out of favor with the Empress for the fact that he converted to Catholicism for marriage. Anna Ivanovna dressed gentle nobleman in a clown outfit, called Kwasnica and was forced to marry for the third time on ugly Kalmyk Avdotya Buzheninova.
The Empress ordered to build on the Neva ice house and sculptures. In this unhappy couple had to spend the first wedding night. The winter was fierce, Golitsyn and his wife put in an iron cage on the elephant which led the procession of mummers. At night, the newlyweds left at the ice house at minus thirty. Morning found them half alive. The Empress was satisfied.
