- If I ever cheat on you – you can kill me with this knife, – jokingly said Tatiana to her husband.
Little she knew that her words would become prophetic and seal her fate.
This story – worth of Shakespeare’s pen – happened one month ago in the Russian city of Izhevsk. One more detail makes the 50-years old Vyacheslav similar to Othello – actually, it’s not clear whether the murdered wife had an affair.
[ Translated from Vz.ru ]
The right of revenge
“50-year-old Vyacheslav (previously married twice) had lived with his wife Tatiana for more than four years. Once she gave him a knife saying that if she ever failed him, he would be entitled to kill her with it” – reads the statement on the website of the Investigative Committee of Udmurtia, Russia.
According to the investigation, it was this same knife that Vyacheslav used to end Tatiana’s life on September 17.
“For the last six months, due to the conflicts with her mother-in-law, Tatiana lived at her mother’s. But on the eve of the murder she didn’t sleep at home. In an attempt to find out the truth the jealous husband came to his mother-in-law” – says the report.
Since his wife is much younger (28 vs 50 y.o.), Vyacheslav, in his opinion, had all reasons to suspect her in cheating. He met her at the entrance to the building, where his mother-in-law lived. Argument ensued and the enraged husband used the knife to execute his “right of revenge”.
After making sure that his wife was dead, the murderer himself called police and surrendered to justice.
Comments of Russian netizens
Maulwurf: Henpecked! He did everything as his wife said. Все сделал, как жена сказала. Подкаблучник.


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Yep, natural selection at work in the case of both parties, as I see it.
Incidentally, this is an excellent example of beta male rage.
What should be the revenge of alpha male?
From the story we don’t know whether his wife really cheated.
If she did, she deserved to be punished. But death is not the best punishment. It only makes him guilty and makes her family suffer.
He should find another way to make her suffer for her stupid mistake.
In the end, if she did cheat, then she kinda sealed her own fate, and it is kind of a Shakespearean turn out. If not, then the tale is of a jealous husband who deserves the harshness of prison. Sad tale either way, but at least if she did cheat one can say she got what was coming to her.
Ha! Doesn’t he deserve the “harshness of prison” in any case (even if she cheated)?