S1E92 - S1.E92 - Russia’s Worst Duchess: The Blood Duchess, The Case of Darya Saltykova
Published: August 15, 2025
Duration: 1:35:53
The Pandemonium team is back - and this time, Cat, Rachel, Meg, and Em are headed to 18th-century Russia, where the tea is hot, the winters are cold, and the noblewomen are absolutely monstrous.
Meet Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, better known as The Blood Duchess: a wealthy widow who spent her free time brutally unaliving her serfs and complaining to God about her love life. Was she a sadistic serial unaliver hiding behind holy icons, or just the Russian aristocracy’s answer to “bad vibes only”?
The crew digs into the blood-soaked snow of history, decoding Darya’...