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How many rounds in a revolver for Russian roulette. How did Russian roulette come about?

In Lermontov's novel A Hero of Our Time, a bet was described that vaguely resembled this game. The first written mention of this term dates back to January 30, 1937, when George Sourdez's "Russian Roulette" appeared in the American magazine Collier's Weekly. It told about how, around 1917, Russian officers, disappointed in life, suddenly took out a revolver, took out only one cartridge from it, and then, spinning the drum, put the muzzle to the temple and pulled the trigger. The chances of it ending in death were five out of six.

How the game Russian roulette appeared

No one can accurately answer this question. There are three common versions of the appearance of this deadly game:

Russian roulette was invented by prison guards in late XIX century. Allegedly, the prisoners were given a pistol with one cartridge. The game continued until it ended with someone's death. The overseers made bets and placed bets on which prisoner they thought should emerge victorious.

This game was invented by the officers Russian army. Playing Russian roulette, they demonstrated their courage and fearlessness.

According to the third version, this game was conceived as a spectacular trick. The drum of the revolver was carefully lubricated. It turned out that under the weight of one cartridge it scrolled and was always at the bottom. This is how the picture appears: the amazed lady faints after the officer, in a fit of passion, decides to tempt fate and put her life on the line before her eyes.

Russian Roulette Rules

One cartridge is inserted into a six-shot revolver, then the drum is spun. The muzzle of the pistol is placed against the chest or head and the trigger is pulled. If the participant remains alive, then the game continues. The revolver is passed to the next.

There are varieties of these rules. For example, not one, but several cartridges are inserted into the drum.

There are more humane rules when the muzzle of a pistol is put to other parts of the body, wounds in which will not be fatal.

How is Russian Roulette played today?

Russian roulette is most popular among people prone to suicide. In particular, the organizers of the Darwin Award, which is awarded posthumously to people who died the most ridiculous death, argue that Russian roulette is one of the most original ways of suicide.

An unusual incident occurred in Cambodia. On March 22, 1999, three peasants in a bar were playing some kind of Russian roulette: they alternately kicked an anti-tank mine that was under their table. In this game, the winner could not be identified: a powerful explosion caused such destruction that none of the participants in this fun was ever found.

In dozens of songs, both domestic and foreign performers, in many films made mainly abroad, one can often find references to "Russian (hussar) roulette." This extreme betting game is so rooted in our minds as a real “fun” that existed in Russia that only a “technical” question arises: how many disputes or incidents with “Russian roulette” actually happened?

Of course, every person, faced with a tradition (object, ritual or concept), which has geographical definition(Japanese tea ceremony, Spanish bullfight, Georgian wine, Argentine tango, the Italian mafia, etc.), understands and a priori accepts the place of its origin, the primary national immanence.

"Russian roulette" most people associate exclusively with Russian culture, and they have no doubt that this absurd "adrenal" suicide originated in Russia.

Surprisingly, but true: reliable historical data on the existence of "Russian roulette" in Russia itself has not been found. It's clear that we are talking about a relatively short time period: from 1871 (when the Smith-Wesson revolvers appeared in the Russian Imperial Army, from 1895 - the Nagant system) until 1917.

And in fact, no matter how bold the notion of this “game” may be, no matter what performers put a fatally heroic meaning into the behavior of the brave and risky officers of the Russian army, it is hard to believe that the servicemen, at that time overwhelmingly believers Orthodox people could, even being in drunkenness, - either for a bet, or for a reckless demonstration of their own "heroism", - to take a more than real risk of ordinary suicide. After all, the probability of a shot (that is, death) was 16.6% at the first pull of the trigger, the second - 20%, the third - 25%, the fourth - 33.3%, the fifth - 50%, the sixth - 100%.

Suicide is one of the most terrible sins that cannot be repented of. A person who arbitrarily put himself to death finds himself in an area where there is no salvation.

The patristic attitude to this problem has always been based on the canonical rule of the Ecumenical Church. Bishop of Dalmatia-Istria Nikodim: “Just as the one who takes the life of another is subject to punishment, the one who takes the life of himself is also subject to punishment.” Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov): “Suicide is the gravest sin! He did it - he deprived himself of repentance and any hope of salvation. The Holy Church does not make any commemoration of him, does not honor the funeral and deprives him of burial in the Christian cemetery.

According to Wikipedia, "in Russian pre-revolutionary literature there is not a single mention of this game." And this despite the fact that the period of interest to us is the heyday of Russian literature, when F.M. Dostoevsky, N.S. Leskov, N.A. Nekrasov, A.N. Ostrovsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexei and Lev Nikolaevich Tolsty, I.S. Turgenev, F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Fet, A.P. Chekhov, poets of the "Silver Age" and many others. Even in the literature of representatives of the ideas of radical Westernism or revolutionary-oriented writers, there is no mention of “Russian roulette”. No one! Not a single fact of such an "extreme" was found either in fiction, or in journalistic literature, or in gossip columns, or in memoirs.

Only in the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time" (written in 1838-1840, that is, long before the introduction of revolvers), in the chapter "Fatalist" there is an episode that vaguely resembles a similar "game with death." Lieutenant Vulich (“Serb by birth”), a gambler who did not hide his “passion for the game”, provokes in a conversation with officers about predestination and the “fatal minute”: “Why empty arguments? Do you want proof? I suggest that you try for yourself whether a person can arbitrarily dispose of his life, or whether each of us has a fateful minute in advance. He himself cocks the trigger, puts the muzzle of the gun to his head and ... a misfire occurs. The dispute used a single-shot flintlock pistol; the debaters did not know for sure whether it was loaded. In addition, flintlock weapons are characterized by fairly frequent misfires. I will only emphasize that Lieutenant Vulich - literary hero, and in the dispute, not a revolver with a rotating drum was used, but a single-shot pistol.

The first printed mention of "Russian roulette" refers to January 30, 1937. George Sourdez, a Swiss-born American journalist, first uses the phrase "Russian roulette" in an article of the same name published in the American magazine Collier's Weekly, which retained the interest of the reading public even during the depression years. The 1,600-word tale described adventures, gambling and tragic outcomes among foreign legionnaires stationed at an isolated North African border post. The author himself, as reported in an article about him, could not explain where he got the term "Russian roulette". It is possible that Sourdez himself came up with this "game": "It was a variant of the" tough guy playing with death ", formed over years of work in journalism" .

In his article, Sourdez quoted a letter from a certain Hugo Feldheim, a young German recruit, to a superior officer. Feldheim was interested in how to hide the suicide of a Russian comrade. Sergeant Burkovsky was a gambler who constantly cheated his colleagues in "risk games" for money. In a conversation with Feldheim, the sergeant once asked if he had heard of "Russian roulette", and then told that in Romania in 1917, in the Russian army demoralized from defeats in the world war, in order to demonstrate courage and indifference to death, the Russian an officer could "suddenly take out his revolver - anywhere: at a table, in a cafe, surrounded by friends - remove the charge from the drum, leaving one cartridge, scroll through the drum and, putting the barrel to his head, pull the trigger."

Sourdez's article was highly praised by the editors of Fiction Parade, and Golden Book Magazine reprinted it in May of that year. Eight months later, a young man named Thomas Markley shot himself in this manner on his birthday in Austin, Texas. It was the first Russian roulette death in the United States.

“Surdez opened the door to the soul world of Americans. And something went wrong there." The American scientists themselves, who have studied this phenomenon, note that the true number of victims cannot be counted - due to the fragmentation of cases and the inability to often find out the real causes of suicides. Thomas Radetzky, a television spokesperson for the National Coalition on Violence, reported 28 shots and 25 confirmed deaths in 1981, including among those who watched movies in theaters and on video. In 1989, the Luisville Courier-Journal quoted journalist Paul Simon as saying that the number of victims had reached 35.

One of the recent tragedies occurred on July 1, 2012 in Largo, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Thorin Montgomery died after being shot while playing Russian roulette with three of his friends. The most authoritative publication after short description sad news categorically postulates: "The game originated in Russia ..."

English-language sites to the question: “Did the Russians really play Russian roulette?” give different answers of the same type, from laconic phrases: “The game originated in Russia”, “It is believed that Russian soldiers played it” to peculiar interpretations of the phenomenon (proven?!) of “Russian roulette” and the reasons for its appearance: “Czarist officers were notorious for their violent, dissolute behavior. Bored officers routinely drank themselves into a stupor, fought duels, gambled, stole, mistreated their men, and shirked their duties. Prime candidates for a little game of chance" - "The royal officers were notorious for their depraved behavior. Bored, the officers usually got drunk alone to the point of complete stupefaction, fought duels, gambled, stole, mistreated orderlies and tried in every possible way to evade service. Top Candidates for a Little Risk Game".

I specifically cited an excerpt describing the Russian officers of that era, in the original language, because if someone did not know anything about Russian officers, then here is an opportunity to fill in the gap. I will refrain from a dozen questions that arise and my own comments about the appearance of the tsarist officers presented in the passage.

I found a curious answer, voted the best in the discussion, on the Yahoo forum, one of the largest search engines: “Russian roulette is commonly used as a form of torture by the unimaginative. I did interrogation/resistance training, and part of that training was (learning) many of the techniques used. This (that is, "Russian roulette") was one of the methods.

Thus, devoid of any historical information about its existence in Russia, sung by the famous "10 Years", "Limp Bizkit", Rihanna, Enrique Iglesias, "Kiss", Lady Gaga, Lyubov Uspenskaya and many others, "Russian roulette", the plot of which was filmed by many famous film directors in well-known films such as "Death on the Air", "The Deer Hunter", "Still I Love", "Arizona Dream", "Burnt by the Sun", "Secrets of Los Angeles" , and in an incredibly difficult film dedicated exclusively to "Russian roulette" - "Thirteen" (where 16 (!) people "lose" in a row) - is, in fact, not a Russian, but an American "tradition".

Follow the chain of occurrence of the version about the Russian roots of this suicide: a certain sergeant Burkovsky tells a certain Feldheim about an alleged tradition in the demoralized tsarist army of 1917. Further, Feldheim writes a letter (!) to an unknown superior officer, which fell into the hands of a sensationally oriented journalist (!) George Surdez, who, in turn, publishes a story based solely on rumors. My opinion is this: the legend about the Russian nature of this type of suicide is another disgusting myth that demonizes Russia and its history, created, perhaps, not by all authors consciously.

By the way, a deep and impartial analysis of the image of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in American films, made by Ivan Kachanovsky (Toronto, Canada), who watched more than 100 films and television series on this subject, is interesting. According to the author, the theme of "Russian roulette" occupies the second position in the list of the most frequently mentioned mythical plots in American films about the countries of the former Soviet Union. The leader in this “stereotype rating”, as it is not difficult to guess, is the myth of the cruelest and invincible “Russian mafia”. I. Kachanovsky writes in his article "Political correctness: Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine in Hollywood films" literally the following: "Despite its name, this game did not originate in Russian Empire; it was invented in 1937 by George Sourdes, American writer, in a fictional short newspaper story".

I have never listened to the lyrics of the song "Hussar Roulette" by Lyuba Uspenskaya before. When writing this note, I had to refer to the text. I'll quote a couple of lines. Read on, please: “The Lord is indifferent, like a croupier, and it is in vain to pray to His losers for mercy. / Here, on our land, on green cloth, there is plenty of space to provide everyone with graves ... "

Yes, I almost forgot our “democratic and liberal” Boris Akunin (whose pseudonym, chosen for himself by the Japanologist himself, is translated from Japanese as “scoundrel, villain”). The writer cited the plot with "Russian roulette" in three of his novels: "Azazel", "Cemetery Stories", "The Mistress of Death".

The above-mentioned confessions of a forum participant may testify to the actual use of this “interrogation method” in the “democratic” countries of the West and North America with their gigantic network of intelligence and law enforcement agencies at the present time.

Moreover, the approved test for "heroism" simply tempts weak and rebellious souls to prove their "courage and fearlessness." The poeticization and exaltation of "Russian roulette" tickles the nerves of the audience (listeners, readers), excites the imagination, and offers potential suicides a proven method of premature and willful death.

Roulette Rules

Basic rules of the game of roulette.

Game description
Roulette consists of a wheel and a gaming table. On the roulette wheel are cells with numbers from 1 to 36, depicted on a red and black background and scattered around it in random order, as well as 0, which is usually depicted on a green background. This order of numbers is used in all game wheels for each type of roulette.

These numbers are displayed on the playing field, where they are arranged in order from 1 to 36, grouped into three columns and divided into three dozen. 0 is above the numbers 1, 2, 3. Also on the gaming table there are cells for bets on red/black, even/odd, big/small numbers, columns and dozens. In addition, there is usually also a field for betting on neighboring numbers and sectors. A roulette wheel is duplicated on it, preserving the order of the numbers.

Purpose of the game
The croupier throws the ball onto the spinning wheel, in the opposite direction of its rotation. The ball, having made several revolutions in a spiral, falls into a special "pocket" or recess, with applied numbers.

Players have the opportunity to:

Guess which number will come up.
Place a bet on several numbers, a combination.
Guess the characteristics of the next number (Black/Red, Even/Odd, Big/Small).

The amount of payouts depends on how the bets were made.

Players can place multiple bets at the same time, combine different types bets, limiting only the maximum possible bet on a particular gaming table.

A game
Players play against the casino (gaming house), which is represented by the croupier.
Being at the game wheel, the croupier controls the entire course of the game:

Exchanges money for chips (or regular chips for roulette chips).
Spins the wheel and throws the ball.
announces winning numbers(number, color, etc.)
Collects losing bets and pays winnings.

In some casinos, depending on the intensity of the game and the number of players, the croupier is paired with an assistant who takes on some of the functions.

Bets and payouts
After buying chips (Chips) from the croupier or at the casino's cashier, the players make bets. If the player cannot reach the desired position on the gaming table, the croupier places chips for the player. The maximum (minimum) amount of a bet that a player can make is determined by the rules of a particular casino, and may vary even for different tables in one institution. Minimum bet means the minimum bet a player can place on outside bets. If bets are placed on numbers (Inside Bets), their total amount must not be lower than the minimum allowable bet.

internal betting fields			terminology			casino advantage
bid	pay	chances	America.	European	Franz.	America.	European
One number	35:1	38:1	straight up	straight up	en plein	5.26%	2.70%
Two numbers	17:1	38:2	Split Bet	Split Bet	Cheval	5.26%	2.70%
Three numbers	11:1	38:3	Street Bet	Street Bet	Transversal	5.26%	2.70%
Four numbers	8:1	38:4	Corner	Corner	carre	5.26%	2.70%
Five numbers	6:1	38:5	five numbers	-	-	7.89%	-
Six numbers	5:1	38:6	line bet	line bet	Sixainne	5.26%	2.70%

outside betting field			terminology			casino advantage
rates	pay	chances	America.	European	Franz.	America.	European
twelve numbers	2:1	38:12	Column	row	Colonne	5.26%	2.70%
Dozen	2:1	38:12	dozen	dozen	Douzaine	5.26%	2.70%
Red/Black	1:1	38:18	Red/Black	Red/Black	Noir/Rouge	5.26%	2.70%
Even/Odd	1:1	38:18	Even/Odd	Even/Odd	impair/pair	5.26%	2.70%
Large/Small	1:1	38:18	Low/High	Low/High	Manque/Passe	5.26%	2.70%

There are different types of bets in roulette:

11 in American

10 in European

Each covers a certain range of numbers (or one number) and in case of winning it is paid differently.

In the same game, a player can make the most different rates and combine them in any order. For example, you can bet on red, the first dozen and a certain number.

The first six types of bets are placed within the boundaries playing field and are called bets on numbers (or inside bets - inside bets). The remaining bets are placed on special fields along the edges of the playing field (outside bets - outside bets)

Bets on numbers (Inside bets)

Bet on one number (Straight Up)

various options

Bet on two numbers (Split Bet)

STREET or bet on three numbers (Street Bet)

Bet on four numbers (Corner Bet)

Five Number Bet

Bet on two rows - six numbers (Line Bet)

outside line

Outside bets

Bet on a column or column (Column Bet)

Dozen Bet

Red or Black (Red or Black)

Even or Odd (Even or Odd)

Small or Large (Low or High)

And so the game
The croupier spins the wheel and throws the ball in the opposite direction of the wheel rotation. Players are allowed to bet until the croupier announces "Bets are placed" ("No more bets", "Rien ne va plus"), usually within the last three spins.

As soon as the ball lands on a number, the croupier announces it and puts a special marker ("dolly" or "loula") on the playing field, indicating this number.

After that, the croupier collects the losing bets and pays out the winnings.

From this game is unknown.

The expression "Russian roulette" is sometimes used in figuratively to indicate some potentially dangerous actions with an unpredictable outcome, as well as to indicate courage bordering on recklessness.

There is not a single mention of this game in Russian pre-revolutionary literature. The only trick that is vaguely similar to Russian roulette is described in Lermontov's Heroes of Our Time.

There are several legends explaining the origin of this game. Most of them connect the emergence of Russian roulette with Russia, Russian soldiers and officers. Here are some of the versions.

In the 19th century, Russian prisoners were forced to play Russian roulette while the guards placed bets on the death or survival of the prisoner.
Another version says that the officers of the Russian army played this game on own will to impress others with their bravery.

According to the latest version, Russian roulette appeared as a spectacular, but generally quite safe trick. This was explained by the fact that in some revolvers, when the trigger is not cocked, the drum allegedly rotates freely. Therefore, if the drum is well lubricated, then when it rotates freely, under the influence of the mass of a single cartridge, it will stand in such a way that the cartridge will be at the bottom, and the drum chamber, coaxial with the barrel, will be empty with a high probability. However weak point This version is the fact that far from all revolvers, when the trigger is not cocked, the drum rotates freely, including the same revolver of the Nagan system, the main revolver of the Russian army at the beginning of the 20th century: its drum, when the trigger is not cocked, stops in the combat position with a special spring latch and, thus, the mass of the cartridge cannot have a noticeable effect on it, which refutes this version.

The first written mention of the term "Russian roulette" refers to January 30, 1937. George Surdez (ur. Georges Surdez) in the article "Russian Roulette" in the American magazine "Collier's Weekly" cites the following dialogue with a French sergeant who served in the Russian army in the Foreign Legion:

“Feldheim… Have you ever heard of Russian Roulette?” When I said that I had not heard, he told me everything about her. When he served in the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, when everything was falling apart around him, Russian officers believed that they were losing not only prestige, money, family, country, but also honor in the face of the Allies. Some of them, sitting anywhere - at a table, in a cafe, with friends - suddenly took out a revolver, took one cartridge out of the drum, twisted it, put the muzzle to their head and pulled the trigger. There was a five out of six chance that a shot would be fired and the officer's brains scattered all over the place. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn't.

It is interesting that the above passage describes the most extreme and most "deadly" version of Russian roulette - when only one empty socket remains in the revolver drum, but it is noteworthy that the number of rounds is indicated not for the Nagant revolver (7 pieces), which, as already mentioned, the main revolver of the Russian army in 1917, which suggests a purely literary origin of the legend of "Russian roulette". The 4.2-line Smith-Wesson revolver, also known as the "Smith-Wesson-Russian" and which was the main revolver of the Russian Imperial Army before the Nagant, also had a drum with a capacity of six rounds.

Varieties of Russian roulette

There are several varieties of Russian roulette. Basically, the techniques of the game differ in the following ways:

By the number of cartridges in the drum
The minimum number of cartridges in the drum is one, the maximum is one less than the number of chambers in the drum. It is clear that the risk increases in direct proportion to the number of cartridges in the drum.
On the rotation of the drum
After each attempt, the barrel of the revolver can (in addition to the automatic turning of the barrel) be rotated by hand. A mathematically similar operation makes the game somewhat less risky, but at the same time less predictable.
By injury
In the "classic" version, after turning the drum, the muzzle of the revolver is attached to the temple, that is, a shot with a high probability means death. However, there were more "safe" options when the revolver is attached, for example, to the palm of your hand. In the "bloodless" version, the shot is fired to the side.

At the same time, the “classic” version of Russian roulette is considered to be a game with the presence of one cartridge in the revolver drum, additional rotation of the drum with the palm of your hand after each shot and putting the muzzle of the revolver to the temple (to the head).

Mathematical model of Russian roulette

Russian roulette obeys the general laws of mathematical statistics.

If we consider the revolver to be six-shot with one cartridge in the drum and if the drum is not rotated by hand after each trigger release, then the probability of a shot P with each new attempt will increase in proportion to the decrease in the remaining number of moves.

Where P- the probability of a shot, N- the number of nests in the drum, n- the number of moves made.

That is, the probability of a shot is distributed as follows:

Thus, if a revolver fails to fire five times, it is known that it will fire on the sixth attempt. A variant of the game is known, in which the drum is rotated after each move, equalizing the probabilities at each move. Then the probability P survive after n-th attempt with the probability of a shot on each move equal to p, is:

(see player error)

Example A 6-shot revolver with one cartridge is used. Probability p shot on each move is 1/6. Respectively:

Number of moves	Probability of Survival
1
2
3
4
5
6

Since one of the participants in the game starts first, the second gets a significant advantage - he should not tempt fate if the first fails. To equalize the risk, the second participant must NOT spin the drum after the first player's successful move. In this case, the probability of death of the first participant is equal to 1/6, and the second one is equal to (probability of getting a move) * (probability of dropping a cartridge)= 5/6 *1/5=1/6. That is, roulette without additional rotations of the drum is fair play in a mathematical sense.

Russian roulette in art

In literature

In the chapter “The Fatalist” of M. Yu. Lermontov’s novel “The Hero of Our Time”, a bet is described that is vaguely reminiscent of Russian roulette: a single-shot flintlock pistol is used, the debaters do not know for sure whether it is loaded; in addition, flintlock weapons are characterized by fairly frequent misfires (which happens in the novel).
In Boris Akunin's novel Azazel, two students - Akhtyrtsev and Kokorin - fought a duel on the principle of "Russian roulette", thus leaving fate to resolve their dispute. Also, the hero of another work by Boris Akunin "Cemetery stories" plays Russian roulette. In the "UNLESS" chapter, the hero tries his luck several times, each time adding a cartridge. In the novel The Mistress of Death, Fandorin resorts to this method to prove the seriousness of his intentions and infiltrate the "suicide club".
In Stephen King's novel Flaming Eyes, one of Andy McGee's patients was constantly tempted to play Russian roulette due to the "ricochet" caused by Andy's suggestion. To prevent the rebound from leading to tragedy, Andy made the patient forget that he had ever read a book that described "Russian roulette".

On TV

There was a TV game on Channel One called Russian Roulette. The host of the program is Valdis Pelsh.

In cinema

In the film The Deer Hunter, the Vietnamese force captive Americans to play Russian roulette. Michael - the hero of Robert de Niro - organizes an escape by persuading the Vietnamese to load the revolver not with one cartridge, but with three. His chances of surviving the game are reduced to 50%, but he gets his hands on an almost full-fledged weapon. The escape succeeds. After suffering stress, Nick becomes a Russian roulette player in Saigon.
In "Thirteen" main character enters the underground sweepstakes on Russian roulette. 17 people stand in a circle, load cartridges (the number of cartridges increases with each new round), spin the drum, wait for the light signal and shoot at the person standing opposite.
In the movie "Death on the Air (Live!)" Eva Mendes' character launches a new TV show, Live!, in which participants play "Russian roulette" with one spin of the drum. Five out of six players get $5 million each, the dead one gets nothing.
In the comedy "Uncle Adolf, nicknamed the Fuhrer" German and Gustav, performed by Adriano Celentano, according to the plot of the film, play "Russian" roulette every week, knowing full well that the drum has been empty for many years.
In the film "Zhmurki" Seryoga (Aleksey Panin) plays Russian roulette.
In the film "DMB" Gena Babkov plays "Russian roulette" with Major General Talalaev, but "knowing the character of the general by hearsay, he did not insert a single cartridge into the revolver." As a result, it turns out that one cartridge was still in the drum.
"The Way of the Weapon" - an elderly killer spends his evenings playing with himself. The game is complicated by the fact that several revolvers are placed in the bag.
In the episode "Cutting Cards" of the television series Tales from the Crypt, two high-profile card sharpers use Russian roulette to unsuccessfully decide which of them to leave the city. For all six moves (without scrolling the drum after each move), the shot never happened.
In the television series “And yet I love,” one of the main characters, Rita, offers Mary, who deceived and betrayed her, to play Russian roulette. Mary accepts her challenge and dies, shooting after Rita.
The episode with the game of "Russian roulette" is in the film "Sonata" directed by Takeshi Kitano.
In the film “Property of the Republic”, ataman Lagutin plays Russian roulette in reverse - he aims at the captive Makar from a revolver with one cartridge and presses the trigger three times.
In G. Lordkipanidze's film "Shores", a young officer resorts to Russian roulette, who thought that the company doubted his courage.
In the film Burnt by the Sun, Mitya, before going to Kotov's dacha, tries his luck with the Russian roulette method.
Film "Russian Roulette"
In the film Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica, there is an episode of playing Russian roulette.
In the television series "Shtrafbat" in the memoirs of Antip Petrovich there was a scene when a woman with sympathies sat down closer to him and the man sitting next to him did not like it, who said that he also liked her. Realizing that someone would have to refuse it, they settled the dispute with the help of the Russian roulette game.
In the film "Banzai" by Paolo Villaggio, the protagonist falls into the hands of Thai gangsters who earn money by playing Russian roulette with their debtors.
In L.A. Confidential, police officer Bud White (Russell Crowe) sticks a single-shot revolver into a suspect's mouth and pulls the trigger three times in a row.
In the Kazakh film The Tale of the Pink Hare, Jean commits suicide in this very way of Russian roulette.
In 187, teacher Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and underage gangster Caesar die while playing Russian roulette.
In Killer Couple: Starsky & Hutch, Officer David Starsky attempts to scare a suspect with a game of Russian roulette. Starsky is convinced that there are no cartridges in the revolver, but one accidentally falls from his sleeve right into the chamber.
In the movie Singleton, agent Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) holds a revolver loaded with one round to the head of a drug dealer and pulls the trigger several times.

In music

In the song "Lil Homies" by 2Pac, the lyrics are "Flirting with death, playin Russian Roulette, screamin: kill me!"
In the song "This suffering" by the Canadian band Billy Talent.
In the song "Take A Look Around" by Limp Bizkit
Bring Me the Horizon's "Alligator Blood" refers to Russian roulette
Rihanna's song "Russian Roulette" is dedicated to this game.
The Flëur group has a song called "Russian Roulette".
The group "Ginex" has an album called "Russian Roulette"
the group "Free Pack" has a song "Russian Roulette".
at the group 10 Years
the group "Accept" has an album "Russian Roulette".
singer Enrique Iglesias has the song Ruleta Rusa.
The singer Fler has a song Russisch Roulette.
at the KISS group - Russian roulette.
The group "Made of Hate" has a song "Russian Roulette".
the group "Bonfire" - "Russian roulette".
singer ICE MC has a song "Russian Roulette".
The Greek singer Petros Imvrios (Greek) Russian there is a song "Ρώσικη ρουλέτα"
anime opening song "Dirty Pair" performed by Meiko Nakahara (jap. 中原めいこ) called "Ru-ru-ru-Russian roulette" (jap. ロ・ロ・ロ・ロシアン・ルーレット )
Romanian hip hop group KST has a song Ruleta ruseasca
singer Lady Gaga has a reference to "Russian roulette" in the song "Poker face"
in the video of the rap group "Triada" for the song "Swan" six people play Russian roulette.
In the song "Noize MC" "Let's have fun" there is a mention of Russian roulette.
The song Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around has the lyrics "It's like Russian roulette when you're placin" your bet"
System Of A Down's song "Sugar" refers to Russian roulette
Rapper Avatar Young Blaze's 'Cry' video features three characters playing Russian roulette
The Purgen group has a song "Russian Roulette"
The song of the singer "Serega" "Free City" mentions "Russian Roulette"
DomiNatioN in the song "Game with Death"
Rapper Eminem's song "Business" refers to Russian roulette
SPICA (스피카 Korean) also mentions Russian roulette in their song "Russian Roulet" (러시안룰렛 Korean) in their music video.
The singer L. Uspenskaya has a song "Hussar Roulette"
In the video for the song What is autumn of the DDT group, Kinchev, Shevchuk and Butusov play Russian roulette.
hip hop band The Alchemist released an album called "Russian Roulette".
Japanese vocaloid Megurine Luka has a song "Russian Roulette"
In song American group Chiodos - "Caves" Russian roulette is mentioned