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The Samara Deliverer: Madame Popova and the Arsenic Underground
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Continuing the Gothy History, Poisons, and Literature series!
In this episode of Mind of Sai Marie, I explore Madame Popova, the Samara poisoner who used covert powders to liberate roughly 300 women from violent marriages under Tsarist rule in Russia from the late 1800s to early 1900s.
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