"One day, Catherine II walked into Peter III's room and found a rat hanging, “with all the formality of an execution,” she wrote, from a makeshift gallows. The rodent had committed treason, the grand duke explained, having devoured two of his toy soldiers made of starch. And there it would remain “for three days, as an example.”"
Source:
Farquhar, Michael. “Chapter 6 – Peter III (1762): “Nature Made Him a Mere Poltroon”.” Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. 102. Print.
"One day, Catherine II walked into Peter III's room and found a rat hanging, “with all the formality of an execution,” she wrote, from a makeshift gallows. The rodent had committed treason, the grand duke explained, having devoured two of his toy soldiers made of starch. And there it would remain “for three days, as an example.”"
Source:
Farquhar, Michael. “Chapter 6 – Peter III (1762): “Nature Made Him a Mere Poltroon”.” Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. 102. Print.
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