Roman Stropicaro, a famous vampire from the village of Pokrovskoe (Romanovo) near Tula Painting

Presumably a vampire originally from Romania. Such a legend is known about him. Roman Stropicaro. It must be fashionable among vampires to have the title of count. The name and activities of this man are inextricably linked with the village of Pokrovskoye, now Romanovo, as well as the old abandoned church, which has survived to this day. It was built in 1847 in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos at the expense of the merchant Vukol Kozovlev. And soon a visiting Count Roman Stropikaro settled in the village. He built a stone house that looked like a castle. In this fortress, a strange nobleman lived in seclusion. During the day, no one saw him, only at night he got into a carriage with a strange coat of arms and left somewhere. The silent, hunched servants remained in the courtyard. Soon after the count was settled, the villagers began to notice that people began to disappear. At the same time, some disappeared without a trace, and someone was found dead, with no apparent cause of death. Only the bodies were pale, as if without blood. Then the inhabitants began to think that some strange disease, bites of wild animals or strangulation were to blame. This continued until the son of one of the landowners came to Pokrovskoe, who began to investigate. The detective's conclusions turned out to be terrible - the traces of all the victims led to the vampire, who was quickly recognized as the strange and incomprehensible where Count Roman Stropikaro came from. An excited and angry crowd of residents gathered near the Intercession Church. Led by the clergy and detectives, she went to the count's house to find out the whole truth and deal with the vampire. People began a siege of the house-fortress. It was getting dark and then the villagers saw how the shadow of the count slipped out from the back door and headed towards the abandoned fields. Half a kilometer from the house, the crowd overtook the vampire and beat him to death with sharp stakes. After that, Stropicaro's body was buried with all precautions, and the grave itself was razed to the ground. True, they said that instead of the count, his double was killed. In any case, the mysterious deaths of the peasants stopped immediately. Stropikaro's house was razed to the ground, and the village itself was renamed Romanovo in memory of those events. Today, excursions are conducted in mysterious places, there are even those who want to walk here at night, armed with an aspen stake.

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