Eunuch Biography

Find the Sultan eunuch: the work of the 17th century dreams of boys removed the genitals and inserted a tube for urination. For this, slaves received a chance to rise to the top of the authorities in the most powerful state of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The author of the books “Roksolana: Myths and Realities”, “Letters of Roksolans: Love and Diplomacy” and the novel “Hatidge Tourhan” Alexander Shutko tells the amazing story of Eunukhov.

Already years ago, the rulers of Assyria ordered the castration of senior officials so that they would not think about the capture of the throne and the founding of their own dynasty. Later, the genitals began to remove the genitals for men for ritual purposes. The Assyrians believed that the goddess Ku-Baba gives fertility. The priests had to sacrifice their genitals in return in return.

It is believed that the worship of Ku-Babe over time was reborn into veneration of the mother of the gods Kibele. After the war with Hannibal, this eastern cult was borrowed in Rome. Male power was highly appreciated there, therefore, they forbidden citizens of the republic and even their slaves to be castrated. There were foreigners with Roman priests. Rome was conquered by the barbarians, and in the 4th century Constantinople became the new capital of the empire.

Asian traditions did not shy there - castrated officials made up a powerful faction at the court. The eunuch of Armenian descent was famous as a commander and diplomat, and in the year saved Emperor Justinian during the uprising of the parties of the hippodrome. In the year, the Turks captured Constantinople and made the city the capital of the Ottoman Empire. As valuable gifts to the Sultan Eunukhov supplied the governors of Egypt there.

An ancient state in the northern interfluve territory of modern Iraq and who do you want to become when you grow up? Among the types of castration was the deprivation of testicles, a member or everything together. Yaiki cut off the eunuchs until the middle of the 15th century, when the Sultan Mehmed II saw the gelding of the mare. Since then, only men with completely remote genital organs have been taken to serve in the Sultan harem.

They operated on boys who have not yet begun puberty. An ideal age was considered 8 years. The victim was tied to the table, the organ was pulled with a rope and cut with a sharp blade. The wound was cauterized with red iron or poured with resin, a bamboo tube was inserted into the channel for the output of urine. Then the child was buried in the neck for several days in hot sand.

Healing and unbearable pain during urination lasted several months. Many castrated were dying of shock, loss or blood poisoning. The rest acquired a thin voice, feminine facial features and body structure, as well as a lifelong urine incontinence due to the lack of a member. Castled stallion castration. Illustration from the Persian treatise on surgery, year. On the way to an important position in the Garem administration, the eunuchs were supposed to overcome several steps of the hierarchy from guards to servants and overseers, so they lived in close huts for many years.

But even such conditions were unprecedented in places where the boys were taken from. In the end, they could rush to the boss and earn on their own residence, or quit the service and ... marry. These were crippled men, but men. Gossip about their skill in oral caresses and the use of sex toys in the 17th century led to the fact that castrates were forbidden to live next to ward women.

The complaints of the concubines were preserved, who were given from the Sultan Garem to the wife to the commanders of the Yanycharsky corps, as if in bed they were worse than eunuchs. Sultan Suleiman the Gorgeous, Sultan Suleiman, even married castrates. And she was not so alone. The eunuch, forced to leave the Sultan harem due to a strong attraction to women, wrote in memoirs: “The desire became so strong that I wanted to touch, hug, bite lips, chest, hips of beautiful concubines, who did not even think of covering their naked bodies next to me.

I felt an excited bull, so I decided to leave the harem and marry. The woman who came for me was a faithful and devoted wife. I am sure that I received much more pleasure from her intimacy with her than an ordinary man. ” Regular infantry of the Ottoman Empire. Forcibly recruited from the Christian subjects of the Sultan “players in the mankal”, Johann Samuel MOK, years. It is believed that the picture depicts eunuchs and concubines.

Source: National Museum in Warsaw Black Power! The Prophet Magomet forbade Muslims to castrate people, considering this an intervention into the will of Allah. The eunuchs' supply business belonged to Christians, and the first hundred years after the winning of Istanbul, the majority of employees of the imperial harem were white. The boys were taken on the conquered lands of the Balkans and the Caucasus from families who could not pay Jesia, the tax from the Gentiles.

The empire was rich in, women's demands for comfort grew, the monarch became more descendants. This stimulated the demand for castrates. In the second half of the 15th century, 20 guards and servants worked in the harem, at the beginning of the next it will become 40, then there will be along the slaves taken in Sudan, the genitals of the Orthodox in Ethiopia and Copts in the monasteries of Egypt were cut off.The castrated African was expensive, more expensive than a beautiful Christian.

Soon, African eunuchs received a numerical advantage and the most important work at court. White now trusted only the external perimeter and premises for men, the blacks looked after the harem and personal apartments of the Sultan. The head of the Black Eunchs Kizlyar-Aga formally led the personnel of the harem and the palace, and in fact held the most important position in the state after the great vizier and the main mufti.

Power is money. Money is the power of Kizlyar-agi is fueled by the influence of the harem and, above all, Valida, the mother of the ruler. This influence was never weak, and in the 16-17 centuries determined the course of the empire. Only Kizlyar-Aga had access to the Sultan and to the harem, transmitted all the messages between them and thus controlled the most important communication channel.

He knew everything, and was the desired source of information for European ambassadors, from which he received considerable bribes. These funds collected land and real estate, and the profit from them was directed to charitable affairs. Kizlyar-Aga monitored the richest waqfs through which the empire financed the content of the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina, for the wacks of several hundred mosques and personal vaccines for women of the Sultan.

So after the death of Greek, Vasilika, the younger wife of Ahmed I, Athens transferred to the department of eunuchs. Illustration: Pixabay the burden of a white person is an interesting example of a white eunuch's career is given by Gazanfer biography. He came from Venice, but the boy and his family were captured into the sea by the Ottoman pirates.

Mother with her daughters bought out, and Gazanfer and brother Jafer got into Istanbul, learned at the palace school and became close to the heir Selim, the son of Alexandra Anastasia Lisowska and Suleiman the Great. A man with a member could not make a career of the Sultanic courtier, and already at adulthood the brothers decided to castrately. After the operation, Gazanfer became a servant of the favorite and future wife of Selim - Nurban.

They were combined. It is believed that Nurban was the daughter of the Venetian governor of the Greek island of Paros. Having ascended the throne, Selim appointed Gazanfer of the Capas-Agas, the head of the white eunuchs and the protection of the palace, and Jafer-Khaz-Odabashi, the manager of the private apartments of the Sultan. The new ruler had the nickname the drunkard and died a few years later.

The successor was Murad, the son of Nurban. Valide concentrated in her hands a considerable power, successfully intrigued against the great vizier and corresponded with European monarchs. Obviously, not without her influence, after Jafer's resignation, his brother took the place of Khaz-Odabashi. For the first time in history, one person held these high positions at the same time.

The eunuch accumulated considerable condition, invited his mother to Istanbul and convinced his sister to accept Islam. However, the reputation of the gray cardinal has the opposite side. In the year, due to a decrease in the salary, the Janissaries rebelled. Under the threat of death, the Sultan agreed with their demand to execute Gazanfer. Gazanfer tomb in Istanbul and a religious school built by his will.

The main eunuch in the harem of his son Ahmed was Bosnyak Haji Mustafa. After castration, the boy was brought up in Egypt and Yemen, which allowed a white man to lead black eunuchs. At this post, Haji Mustafa received the glory of the philanthropist - he supported poets, architects and capable of civil servants. With his assistance, the dream of summer Ahmed I on the construction of a magnificent Blue Mosque in the Ipprarian Square was realized.

On the way of the project was the main mufti, which warned against expenses during the financial crisis, when the peasant uprising was going on in the country, a heavy war with Austria had just ended and the war with Persia continued. Haji Mustafa convinced him to the argument that it was these difficult circumstances that demand to propitiate Allah. The Blue Mosque became the hallmark of Istanbul.

In the courtyard, you can see the inscription-dedication to the Sultan Ahmed and Kizlyar-Age Haji Mustafa. For the first time in the imperial mosque, the name of a person who did not belong to the family of rulers was immortalized. Haji-aga on the right. Frame from the television series "The Great Age. The photo of Alexandra is joking the conspiracy of the castrates in the 17th century, the eunuchs received the greatest force.

Having access to huge money of funds-vakfs and the appropriate influence, they dared to intervene in dynastic ranges and determine candidates for the throne. In the year, Ahmed I died of typhoid. Haji Mustafa helped for the first time in the history of Ottomans to transfer power not to the son of his predecessor, but to his brother. Three months later, when the madness of Mustafa I became too obvious, Kizlyar-Aga persuaded the muftiyev to recognize him incapacitated and contributed to the ascent of the summer Osman II.