Landowner Daria Saltykova went down in history as one of the most brutal serial killers. She tortured 139 people to death. In 1768, the landowner was sentenced by the court to death, commuted to life imprisonment in the monastery prison. Saltychikha became famous not only for its crimes, but also for the fact that for the first time in the history of Russia, its case was considered by a specially created body for this purpose — the judicial board. And she herself was legally recognized as the first serial killer in the history of the Russian Empire.