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True crime · 22.02.1859

Through the gauntlet on Mahtra's Field of Blood

Kadalipp Mahtra Verepõllul

After the Mahtra War of June 1858, in which peasants from Juuru, Kose and Rapla parishes drove off a punitive company and the manor house burned, a military court first sentenced the ringleaders to death. The governor-general turned this into flogging, and Tsar Alexander II confirmed it. On 22 February 1859 (10 February old style) the sentence was carried out at Mahtra manor under military guard. Forty-one men were driven through the gauntlet; the two harshest sentences were 1,000 blows each, followed by twenty years' hard labour and exile to Siberia. The village headman Hans Tertsius got 100 blows and exile. People called the place the Field of Blood.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

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Pärast 1858. aasta juuni Mahtra sõda, kus Juuru, Kose ja Rapla kihelkonna talupojad ajasid karistussalga minema ja mõisahoone põles maha, mõistis sõjakohus vastuhakkajate peamehed algul surma. Kindralkuberner muutis selle peksukaristuseks ja keiser Aleksander II kinnitas otsuse. 22. veebruaril 1859 (vkj 10. veebruaril) viidi karistus sõjaväe valve all Mahtra mõisas täide. Kadalipust aeti läbi 41 meest; kõige karmimad karistused olid 1000 hoopi, millele järgnesid 20 aastat sunnitööd ja asumine Siberisse. Vallatalitaja Hans Tertsius sai 100 hoopi ja saadeti asumisele. Karistuspaik jäi rahva mällu Verepõllu nime all.

Map of the area around Through the gauntlet on Mahtra's Field of Blood
59.08110° N, 25.01340° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Estonian Wikipedia: Mahtra sõda ↗

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