A Russian mother was raped, beaten and had her hand cut off with a knife in front of her five-year-old son during a terrifying ‘three weeks’ of torture by her husband. 

Anastasia, 28, said her spouse, Vladislav, had inflicted medieval-torture on her in an intended copycat of a notorious earlier case in the country.

Their hysterical son, five, was watching cartoons but saw how the brutal man, 27, severed her right hand.

By the time he cut off her hand, he had already forced her to falsely confess on video to being a prostitute, and that her mother was a pimp, she said. 

He also shaved her head. ‘Bald, covered in bruises and blood, I said all this on camera, if only he would stop beating me,’ she said.

A Russian mother (pictured) was raped, beaten and had her hand cut off with a knife in front of her five-year-old son during a terrifying ‘three weeks’ of torture by her husband

Anastasia, 28, said her spouse, Vladislav, (pictured together with their son) had inflicted medieval-torture on her in an intended copycat of a notorious earlier case in the country

The hand-cutting was the culmination of a three week kidnap ordeal when she was handcuffed to a bed in a flat in Perm, repeatedly beaten, raped, and forced to take the same drugs as him, according to her testimony.

He showed her a video of Margarita Grachyova, now 30, whose jealous husband cut off her hand with an axe – and told Anastasia she would face the same.

But Anastasia managed to hide his axe, so he ordered her to sit on the floor and used a knife, hammering the blade, to cut off her hand, she said.

‘My son sat opposite and watched cartoons, so I tried not to show pain,’ she told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

But the boy came in and saw the hand lying on the floor.

He accused his father: ‘Why did you cut off mummy’s hand?’

The man lied: ‘Mummy and me are playing, I’m fixing Mummy’s arm.’

He wrapped a rag on her arm to stop the blood gush, and put the hand in a bag, then two bags. She said he wanted to throw it away so the police wouldn’t find it.

He told me: ‘I’ll make sure it’s never sewn back on again’

The hand-cutting was the culmination of a three week kidnap ordeal when Anastasia (pictured) was handcuffed to a bed in a flat in Perm, repeatedly beaten, raped, and forced to take the same drugs as him, according to her testimony

After cutting of his wife’s hand, Vladislav (pictured) called an ambulance – and then fled with the couple’s traumatised son. He was detained next day, and is under criminal investigation for grievous bodily harm and rape

She said: ‘Every minute I was getting worse, and everything was covered in blood all around. I asked him to let me walk. My hand began to burn furiously.

‘I went into the bath and asked Vlad to loosen the rag, and immediately blood gushed like a fountain. I was abruptly thrown into a sweat, shaking, and some hissing appeared in my ears, I began to lose consciousness.

‘I tried to pull my head back in order to stay in reality.

‘Vlad brought me water, I took a few sips, but my legs buckled, and I collapsed to the floor, while my arm hung over the bath, where blood flowed.

‘The plug was in and the bath slowly filled with blood.’

He called an ambulance – and then fled with their traumatised son.

He was detained next day, and is under criminal investigation for grievous bodily harm and rape.

Grachyova, then a mother of two, became a campaigner against domestic abuse and a TV host after her horrific ordeal in 2017.

Anastasia’s husband showed her a video of Margarita Grachyova (pictured), now 30, whose jealous husband cut off her hand with an axe in a shocking case from 2017. Grachyova, then a mother of two, became a campaigner against domestic abuse and a TV host after her ordeal

Both her hands were severed but doctors managed to sew one back on, and she had an artificial limb fitted on the other.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Vladimir Putin’s government to pay her compensation of more than £300,000 after her monster husband Dmitry Grachyov, 30, struck her with a blunt axe more than 40 times in a forest.

He was jailed in a strict regime penal colony for 14 years.

The court warned of the ‘staggering scale’ of violence against women in Putin’s Russia.