In September 1898, Austria-Hungary Empress Elisabeth Aurelia Eugenia of Wittelsbach was known as the Duchess of Bavaria. Sissi no longer flaunts her beauty we have not inherited their portraits, nor the glamor of movies starring Rommy Schneider and Ava Gardner. On the 10th of that month, the day she was killed, she was an anorexic frail woman, aged by years, affected by tragic events.like the death of his sister in a fire, the death of his daughter Sofía, the victim of strange fires, and above all the mysterious suicide of his favorite son, Archduke Rodolfo, in 1889.
there was one poor health due to tuberculosiscoupled with concerns about Problems facing the troubled empire It is ruled by her husband, Kaiser Francisco José I, an empire that Sissi herself envisioned. oppressive, despotic and authoritarianThreats from anarchists, terrorists and nihilists, with whom the Empress had a certain sympathy, began to appear around her (she named her favorite horse Nihilist). So was Sissi feministanti-militarist, proponent of the working class and supporter of women’s suffrageThe conditions that he frequently expressed in his poems, which was his hobby during his adolescence and which he reconsidered in the last years of his life, also includes a critique of the Viennese society of the period and the corruption of the period. court. He left instructions that these poems should not come to light until 60 years after 1890, so they were not published until the late 20th century. He knew that the society of his time would not understand his poetry, and he feared that his writings would vanish, as did the poetry of his son Rodolfo.
Attempt
That day, 10 September 1898, after lunch, the bridesmaid Countess Irma Sztàray left the Beau Rivage hotel in Prègny, on the shore of Lake Geneva, and set off to board the steamer ‘Geneva’. Follow the road to the Territer and from there to Montreux. Despite the Emperor’s warnings Sissi was unescorted.
Leaning against one of the railings of the pier, which was very crowded at that time, I was waiting for Luigi Lucheni. The two women approached him after identifying which of them was the terrorist Sissi. he approached from behind and stabbed a thin 14-centimeter stiletto under his left collarbone With the intention of reaching the heart of the Empress. Sissi fell to the ground and hit her head on the ground, but her hat cushioned the blow. She stood up immediately, even trying to comfort those around her by asking about her condition. She thought that the slight pain in her back was due to the impact she had received from falling from the cobblestones of the pier; She hadn’t even seen the man who stabbed her, She. He still had the strength to walk to the ship and climb the ladder. but when he got on deck he felt a strange tiredness and passed out. When the captain, learning of Sissi’s identity, decided to return to the port, the ferry had already departed and the two women were sent back to the hotel. Already in the room Sissi lay on the bed and soon stopped breathing.. He was dead. Luigi Lucheni’s stiletto had ruptured her lung and struck the left ventricle of the empress’s heart. He died as the terrorist surrendered to local agents and declared himself the sole author of the attack. In a letter to Napoli’s ‘Don Marzio’ newspaper blamed him crime society that oppresses the working classes. Lucheni had planned to attack Philippe of Orleans, who claimed the French throne, but changed his plans when the prince’s visit was canceled and he learned of Sissi’s presence in Prègny.
illustrated terrorist
Luigi Lucheni’s mother had left her in a nursing home as soon as she gave birth in Paris, where she had come from Parma to hide her pregnancy after she was raped by the landowner she worked for. Lucheni was adopted by a financially disadvantaged family in Italy during his childhood he worked in the streets collecting dung for dung, guiding a blind beggar, and in the service of the village priestTo the abbot Giuseppe Venusti, in exchange for a daily piece of black bread and a bunk bed to sleep in for four hours in a barn infested with fleas and mice. At the age of twelve he improved his position by serving as a farm boy with Ángelo Savi in Rubiano, but seeing no better future, he fled to Genoa at 14, where he worked on the construction of railways. . At the age of 21, he served in a cavalry regiment, joined the Abyssinian campaign, and when it was finished he entered for a few months as a servant to Prince Raniero d’Aragona. In 1898 he went to Switzerland in search of better working horizons. He found them in Geneva with his anarchist comrades, his Italian friends. The fever of anarchism instilled in him the utopia of the salvation of humanity through royal terror. and at one point his comrades encouraged him to “do something big.”
Lucheni wanted to be tried in Lucerne because he thought he was. The death penalty by guillotine in force in that city will be the final touch. For a life like his, but the court that tried him in Geneva sentenced him to life imprisonment. They say that when the judge read the verdict, Lucheni learned about the empress’s values and that Sissi’s life was not as happy as she thought.
Although those who know him know his fondness for books, He took refuge in prison to studyDrawing on the texts of Rousseau and Voltaire in particular, one of the saddest books ever written, ’19. He wrote his autobiography ‘The Self-Told Story of an Abandoned Child at the End of the Century’ in French and thanked the stiletto he used in this book. He killed the empress to let him be someone alive. However, the notebooks in which he wrote his story with great devotion for twelve years mysteriously disappeared from his cell. Hopeless, Hanged himself using his own belt.
A few months after Lucheni’s death, a woman sold five memoirs to an Italian antique dealer. She was the daughter of the warden of the Geneva prison where Lucheni was serving.