Olga Konstantinovna Briscorn

Olga Konstantinovna Strukova Briscorn (née Mavrogeni; 1776 – 1836), nicknamed The Kursk Saltychikha, was a wealthy Russian landowner and socialite, as well as torturer and serial killer of her own serfs, who operated in the Kursk, Yekaterinoslav, and Saint Petersburg Governorates. She owned households in the capital, and other estates in Pyataya Gora, Prilepy, and Khomutovka. Biography Olga Konstantinovna Strukova, born in 1776 in the family of a wealthy landowner, came from the well-known Mavrogeni family, who were Moldovan boyars. She married the provincial marshal of nobility, Ananiy Gerasimovich Strukov, the richest man in the province, receiving a very good dowry from the marriage: 56,000 rubles, large plots of land and households, as well as several hundred slaves. After a very profitable wedding, Olga Strukova became the "first lady" among the Yekaterinoslav elite. A young (a little over 30) woman, well-read and witty, she was keenly interested in theater and amateur performances. Soon after her husband's death, the widow moved to St. Petersburg, but did not mourn for long - only a year later, she married a major official, senator and diplomat named Fyodor Maximovich Briscorn. Strukova then began living a double life: in St. Petersburg, she posed as a model of piety, in whose metropolitan house on Galernaya Street, the family of the great poet Alexander Pushkin lived for some time; however, in the Yekaterinoslav, "Senator Briscorn" became known for something completely different.