Vladimir Korolenko
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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician, as well as numerous short stor
Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1912
Young Korolenko
Korolenko in 1885
Korolenko with Evdokiya Semyonovna (to the left) and daughters Natalya and Sofya, in 1903
Menahem Mendel Beilis
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Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or the "Beilis affair". Although Beilis was eventually acquitted after a
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…it was published abroad in Russian, Bulgarian, German, French and Italian languages. In 1913 he took strong public stand against the anti-Semitic Beilis trial and wrote the powerful essay "Call to the Russian People in regard to the blood libel of the Jews" (1911–13). Korolenko never belonged to any political…
Portrait of Beilis after his arrest in 1911
Beilis with his family
An antisemitic flier distributed in Kiev before the Beilis Trial. The caption reads "Orthodox Russian people, commemorate the name of the youth Andriy Yushchinskyi who was martyred by Zhids! Memory eternal to him! Christians, guard your children!!! On March 17, the passover of the Zhids [an ethnic slur for Jews] begins."
Student Vladimir Golubev, leader of Two-Headed Eagle, who fabricated the accusation against Beilis