Beilis affair
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The Beilis affair was a judicial trial accusing Menahem Mendel Beilis of the ritual murder of 13-year-old Andriy Yushchinskyi, a student at the preparatory class of the Kiev-Sophia Theological School.
Beilis at the trial
Andriy Yushchinskyi in his coffin
Cave where Yushchinskyi's body was found
Newspaper "Double-headed Eagle", March 11, 1912: "Christians, guard your children!!! On March 17, the Passover of the Jews begins"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He
Solzhenitsyn in 1974
Solzhenitsyn (right) and his long-time friend Mstislav Rostropovich (left) at the celebration of Solzhenitsyn's 80th birthday
Solzhenitsyn with Heinrich Böll in Langenbroich, West Germany, 1974
Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.