Wallachia

his children and wife when he was stopped by none other than Dracula himself. He stopped short, knowing that he had stumbled upon the wrong path. “Greetings, friend. You have been invited to a feast at my house. The real house of the Prince of Wallachia! Do you accept?” Dracula said, smiling deviously, causing his pointed teeth to protrude from his mouth. Andrei gulped. He most certainly did not want to go to the feast, but, knowing what would happen if he rejected…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula vs Vlad the Impaler It is a known fact that Bram Stoker based his famous novel ‘Dracula’ on the legend of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia. Vicious acts that defy humanity, but most importantly his insatiable thirst for blood and the fact that he impales all his enemies still twitching bodies on a stick earned him his nickname Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler in english. Although the word ‘dracula’ has a distinctive meaning than the word people associate it with today, a…

creature called Dracula. The vampire that would suck the blood out of any human he caught. Dracula was actually real or I should say was real at one time. In Transylvania, Romania was count Dracula, otherwise known as “Vlad IV, 1431?–1476, prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456–62, 1476), known as Vlad the Impaler. He was the son of Prince Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil) and is therefore also called Dracula or son of the Devil”. He was a gruesome king of Transylvania; during his reign, he killed many…

The Crimean War occurred in 1853 when Russia invaded the Ottoman controlled areas of Moldavia and Wallachia. Then the Ottoman Empire alongside their allies, Great Britain, France and Sardinia, went to war against the Russian army and their quest to return the “Holy Land” of Israel back from the Ottoman Turks and return it to the Russian Orthodox. The French and the British were afraid of Russian expansion into Ottoman land, thus leading to their alliance with the Turks. Great Britain were truly…

Vlad, along with multiple servants, crossed the forest in search of Saxons in the village of Amlas. Those he was able to gather were thrown into a pile, then slaughtered with knives and swords. Those he did not kill immediately were taken back to Wallachia and hanged. The remainder of Amlas, as well as outstanding inhabitants which totalled…

chosen at random although it happens. Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Dracula) had what we call…a traumatic childhood in today's time. Even some of which was considered "acceptable" during the 14th and 15th centuries; Vlad's atrocities against the people of Wallachia were usually attempted to enforce…

Although impalement was Vlad’s favorite form of torture, he had a long list of others that he used as well. These included the severation of limbs, nails being pounded into heads, blinding, strangulation, burning, mutilation, skinning, exposure to wild animals, and being burned alive. He had performed many examples of these tortures, but there are some that are regarded as particularly gruesome. (Porter, 1992). On one occasion, in 1459, he had guests at his castle. They were Turkish envoys, sent…

However, with further studies, it was concluded that Stoker derived his creation from different sources. One of which was the book, Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. In a footnote, Stoker read that Dracula in Wallachian language means the “Devil”. If not for this novel, Dracula would have been named something entirely different closer to the name of Satan or Lucifer. It was also decided that Dracula…

society, and that it also contained symbolism with various characters within the Dracula novel. The character Dracula is most likely to be connected to a real man named Vlad III Dracula and family that lived in the 15th-century whom was a ruler of Wallachia in Eastern Europe predominately from 1456 to 1462. Vlad although not an actual…

American Author Project: Elizabeth Kostova Although there were many people who tried to re-create Bram Stoker’s Dracula, only Elizabeth Kostova was able to really capture the true essence – albeit 113 years after the original was written in the first place. Even though nobody can compare to the Bram Stoker original, Elizabeth Kostova did entirely get the ideas written down in such a way that it was easy to tell she paid attention to the tiniest of details. Elizabeth Kostova is important to…