There are quite a few theories and legends about the origins of vampires. One of them says that they are descendants of Cain, who became the first biblical murderer 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 related to the name of Vlad Tepes, the Romanian governor of the 15th century, later the ruler of Transylvania. It is he who is the very famous Count Dracula!
Count Vladislav III Dracula is a real historical character who is a national hero of Romania and a crime fighter. Its history goes back to medieval Transylvania…
The Story of Count Dracula
Bloodthirsty ruler
Vlad the Impaler was the ruler of Transylvania (a region located in northwestern Romania) from 1448 to 1476. His favorite pastime was the sadistic torture of enemies and civilians, among which one of the worst - piercing the anus. For the fact that Vlad the Impaler loved to impale living people, he was nicknamed Vlad the Impaler. However, his most cruel atrocity was something else: somehow the Romanian governor invited him to his castle (in which, in fact, he carried out all the torture - see below).photo below) for a dinner party a large number of beggars. When the poor fellows were eating peacefully, Count Dracula locked them in a room and set them on fire. In addition, the chronicle describes a case when this sadist ordered his servants to nail their hats to the heads of Turkish ambassadors only because they refused to take them off in front of the ruler.
Such atrocities left their mark 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 Tepes so unusually cruel? Why did he keep the whole of Transylvania in fear, confusing and bewildering all European monarchs? More on that later.
The insidious and cruel Count Dracula
Transylvania is the place of his birth. "Dracul" (Dragon) is a nickname. At the age of 13, the son of the Wallachian governor Vladislav II was captured by the Turks and held hostage for almost 4 years. It was this fact that influenced the psyche of the future ruler. He was described as an unbalanced person with many obscure habits and strange ideas. For example, Count Dracula was very fond of eating at the place of execution of people or the recent battle with a fatal outcome. Isn't it strange?
The nickname "Dragon" Tepes received due to the fact that his father had membership in the elite knightly Order of the Dragon, which was created by Emperor Sigismund in 1408. As for the title - Vlad III, he should have been called the ruler, and not the count, but such naming is arbitrary. But why exactlyis this ruler considered to be the progenitor of vampires?
It's all about Tepes' extraordinary passion for bloodshed, for inhuman torture and murder. Then it becomes unclear why the Russian tsar from the Rurik dynasty - John Vasilyevich - was nicknamed "Terrible"? He, too, should be dubbed a vampire, because it was he who drowned Ancient Russia in blood in the literal sense of the word. But that's another story…
