The Bloody Sectarians: Prince Vladimir’s Killing Crusade
They knocked on a fortune teller’s door claiming they wanted their futures read. Minutes later she was dead. Over the next eight months in Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Guryanov and his partner Elvira Egorycheva murdered at least 13 people — raping, robbing, and killing in the name of a private religion they invented. He called himself Prince Vladimir, last of the Rurikids. She called herself Mother. Together they believed the women they slaughtered would become his wives in the afterlife.
Host Alexander Lawson traces how an icon painter and a widow built a delusion that turned into one of…
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