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So after Russians got free of the Mongol Yoke they fell into barbarism and started the burnings. Glad Father Genghis did not had to see what his children become. Burying your enemies alive (or building a platform over them) and have a feast over their dying bodies is clearly the civilized practice.
> The form of capital punishment by burning
> Military Statute of Peter I of 1716
> for counterfeiters "according to the greatness of the offense" (article 199)
Inderdasting.
> for the intentional burning of the city or individual households
> For arson by officers or privates
> It is also known from chronicles, that in Pskov the perpetrators of arson were executed by burning[13].
This is more like an eye for an eye thing.
Long article. Mayhap read the rest later.