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Multan Affair
The Multan affair was a high-profile late 19th century case about a ritual murder in the Russian Empire allegedly committed by a group of Udmurt peasants in the village of Old Multan. The affair is called by the name of the village where the initial event happened, "Vuzh Multan" (Old Multan) in Udmurt. It has been subsequently renamed to Korolenko village, in Vladimir Korolenko's honour and memory.Tyunkin, K. Commentaries. The Works by V.G. Korolenko in 6 volumes. Vol 6. Pp. 396-419 The case is considered a model of fruitful cooperation between lawyers, investigative journalists, and government officials. Korolenko and Anatoly Koni are played significant roles in bringing the Multan case to attention. In culture In addition to a considerable amount of journalistic and historical research, the case has been fictionalized numerous times. It includes ''The Old Multan'' (1954), magnum opus of Udmurt writer (1905—1955), and ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog'' (2006), novel fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease deity, gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of veneration of the dead, dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribe, tribal societies are human cannibalism, cannibalism and headhunting. Human sacrifice is also known as ritual murder. Human sacrifice was practiced in many human societies beginning in prehistoric times. By the Iron Age with the associated developments in religion (the Axial Age), human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia, and came to be looked down upon as barbarian, barbaric during classical antiquity. In the New World, Americas, however, human sacrifice cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Akunin
Grigori Chkhartishvili (; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი), better known by his pen name Boris Akunin (, born 20 May 1956), is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin Detective fiction, detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translation, translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia. Early life Chkhartishvili was born on 20 May 1956 in Zestaponi to a Georgians, Georgian father and a Jewish mother. He moved to Moscow in 1958. Career Chkhartishvili worked as assistant to the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Foreign Literature'', but left in October 2000 to pursue a career as a fiction writer. Influenced by Japanese kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal Cases In Russia
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), '' The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by the criminal law of each r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890s Trials
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendel Beilis Affair
Menahem Mendel Beilis (1874 – July 7, 1934; sometimes spelled Beiliss) 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 lengthy process, the legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire. Beilis's story was fictionalized in Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel '' The Fixer'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Maurice Samuel's book ''Blood Accusation: the Strange Case of the Beilis Trial'', a non-fiction account, was published by Alfred A. Knopf the same year. Biography Menahem Mendel Beilis was born into a Hasidic family. In 1911, he was an ex-soldier and the father of five children. He was employed as a superintendent at the Zaitsev brick factory in Kiev. Murder of Andriy Yushchinskyi On March 12, 1911, a 13-year-old boy named Andriy Yushchinskyi disappeared on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Yan
Vasily Yan (; , Kiev, Russian Empire – August 5, 1954, Zvenigorod, Moscow Oblast), also spelled "Vassily Yan" (or "Ian") or just "V. Yan", was the pen name of Vasily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky (), a Russian and Soviet writer, author of famous historic novels. Biography Born in Kiev to a family of teachers, his father was from an Orthodox Christian priests family, who had graduated from seminary and taught Latin and Greek at the University Gymnasium. In 1897, Yan graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University. Impressions of a two-year tour of Russia form the backbone of his book ''Notes of a Pedestrian'' (1901). In 1901–1904 he served as inspector of wells in Turkestan, where he studied Oriental languages and the lives of local people. During the Russian-Japanese war, he was a military correspondent for the St. Petersburg News Agency (SPA). In 1906–1913, he taught Latin at the first Petersburg Gymnasium. As an organizer of the scouts he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Brushtein
Alexandra Yakovlevna Brushtein (Алекса́ндра Я́ковлевна Бруште́йн; née Vygodskaya; 11 August 1884 – 20 September 1968) was a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright, and memoirist. She authored more than sixty plays, mostly for children and youth. But she is most remembered for her widely-acclaimed autobiographical series . Life Brushtein was born in Vilnius as Alexandra Yakovlevna Vygodskaya. Her father was Jakub Wygodzki, a doctor and writer. Her mother was Yelena Semyonovna Vygodskaya (nee Yadlovkina), also from a medical family. Elena's father, Semyon Mikhailovich Yadlovkin, was a military doctor in Kamianets-Podilskyi. She graduated from the Bestuzhev Courses. She participated in the revolutionary movement, and was active in the Political Red Cross. After the October Revolution, she participated in Likbez, the Soviet campaign to eradicate illiteracy. She organized literacy schools in Petrograd, and worked on creating a repertoire for children's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
