Count Dracula - who is he?

There are quite a few theories and legends about the origins of vampires. One of them says that they are the descendants of Cain, who became the first biblical killer of his own brother. But all this is speculation to the main version. Until now, not everyone knows that the origin of the vampire is directly connected with the name of Vlad Tepes, the Romanian governor of the 15th century, and later the ruler of Transylvania. It is he who is the most famous Count of Dracula!

Count Vladislav III Dracula is a real historical figure who is the national hero of Romania and a fighter against crime. Its history goes back to the medieval Transylvania ...

History of Count Dracula

Bloodthirsty ruler

Vlad Tepes was the ruler of Transylvania (an area in the north-west of Romania) from 1448 to 1476. His favorite pastime was the sadistic torture of enemies and civilians, among whom one of the most horrible is the piercing of the anus. For the fact that Vlad Tepes liked to put on the count of living people, he was nicknamed Vlad-Prokalyvatelyom. However, his most brutal atrocity was in another: somehow the Romanian voivode invited to his castle (in which he, in fact, carried out all the tortures - see the photo below) at the dinner party a large number of beggars. When the poor people were eating peacefully, Count Dracula locked them in a room and set them on fire. In addition, the chronicle described the case when this sadist ordered his servants to nail the heads of Turkish ambassadors with their headgears only because they refused to remove them before the ruler.

Such atrocities have left their imprint on the personality of this ruler. Count Dracula became the prototype of the hero of the novel of the same name, written by Bram Stoker. Why was Tsepesh unusually cruel? Why did he keep the whole of Transylvania in fear, disconcerting and confusing all European monarchs? About this further.

The Insidious and Cruel Count of Dracula

Transylvania is the place of his birth. "Dracula" (Dragon) is a nickname. At the age of 13, the son of the Wallachian governor Vladislav II was captured by the Turks and was held hostage for almost 4 years. It was this fact that influenced the psyche of the future ruler. He was referred to as an unbalanced person with a lot of strange habits and strange ideas. For example, Count Dracula was very fond of eating on the spot of the execution of people or the recent battle with death. Is not it strange?

Tsepesh received the nickname "Dragon" because his father had a membership in the elite knightly Order of the Dragon, which was created by Emperor Sigismund in 1408. As for the title - Vlad III, it should be called a ruler, not a count, but such a name is arbitrary. But why is this ruler considered the progenitor of vampires?

It's all about Tepes's extraordinary passion for bloodshed, for inhuman tortures and murders. Then it becomes unclear why the Russian tsar from the Rurik dynasty - John Vasilyevich - is nicknamed "Terrible"? He should also be christened as a vampire, because he drowned Ancient Russia in the blood in the literal sense of the word. But that is another story...