son beaten by, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1
son’s disappearance and, 3.1, 3.2
and son’s last day of life
Prikhodko, Luka, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1
arrest of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 10.1
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 10.1
and investigations of stepson’s murder, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
“Prioress’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), epi.1, 2.1, nts.1n
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, prf.1, nts.1n
Prussia, 2.1, 12.1
Purim, 11.1, nts.1n
Pushka, Pavel, 1.1, 2.1
Rasputin, Grigory, 2.1, 5.1, 12.1
Iliodor and
Nicholas and, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2
Ravich, Adele, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Ravich, Amerik, 10.1, 12.1
Reign of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, The (Elchaninov)
Reuter’s
Reznik, Semyon
Right wing, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
and alleged ritual murder of Yushchinsky, 7.1, 8.1
Beilis’s trial and, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Fastov case and
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 10.1, 11.1
Stolypin’s assassination and
Yushchinsky’s grave site and
see also under Russia; Kiev
Rogger, Hans, 5.1, 8.1
Roman Catholics, Roman Catholicism, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1n
Beilis’s trial and, 11.1, 11.2
Romanov dynasty
demise of, prf.1, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, nts.1n
tercentenary jubilee of, 8.1, 8.2
Rosenwald, Julius
Rozanov, Vasily, n
Rudzinsky, Boris “Borka”
Beilis’s trial and, 10.1, 10.2
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
Russia, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1, nts.1n, nts.2n, nts.3n
and alleged ritual murders by Jews, 2.1, 8.1
anti-Semitism in, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2
anxiety for future of
Beilis’s indictments and
Beilis’s trial and, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, nts.1n, nts.2n
corruption and decadence of, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
criminal underground in, 7.1, 7.2
forensic science in
and international interest in Beilis case, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 2.1, 12.1
Provisional Government of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
revolutions and revolutionaries in, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1n, nts.2n
right in, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, nts.1n
ritual murder revival in
social unrest in, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1
and support for Beilis, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
U.S. trade with, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
World War I and, 12.1, 12.2
Russian Banner, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2
Russian Gazette
Russian Orthodox Church, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1n
and alleged ritual murder of Yushchinsky, 8.1, nts.1n
on imperial remains
and Yushchinsky’s burial and funeral
Russian National Union of the Archangel Michael, 7.1, 8.1
Russo-Japanese War, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 11.1
Ryzhov, L.
Sabath, Adolph J.
St. Petersburg, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
and international support for Beilis, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 7.1, 9.1
Kuliabko and
Liadov’s dispatch from, 2.1, 2.2
revolutions and, 1.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
Romanov tercentenary and
St. Sophia Cathedral, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1
Samuel, Maurice, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1n
Saratov
Sasha F.
Sazonov, Egor
Sazonov, Sergei, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1n
Schiff, Jacob, 5.1, 8.1
Shakhovskaya, Ulyana
alcoholism of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Beilis’s trial and, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1
Yushchinsky’s abduction and, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
Shakhovsky, Kazimir the “Lamplighter”
alcoholism of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Beilis’s alleged poisoning plan and, 6.1, 7.1
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
Yushchinsky’s abduction and, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Shcheglovitov, Ivan, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1n, nts.2n
and alleged ritual murder of Yushchinsky, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
arrest, imprisonment, and interrogation of, 12.1, 12.2
and Beilis’s arrest and imprisonment, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Beilis’s trial and, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
and flimsiness of Beilis case
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1
Liadov’s mission and, 2.1, 2.2
Shmakov, Alexei, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1
Shneyerson, Faivel, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2
Sholem Aleichem, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Shredel, Alexander
Shulgin, Vasily, 3.1, 12.1, nts.1n
Beilis’s trial and
Nicholas’s abdication and
Siberia, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 10.1
social unrest in
Sikorsky, Ivan, 2.1, 4.1
and alleged ritual murder of Yushchinsky, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2
anti-Semitism of, 2.1, 2.2, 11.1
Beilis’s trial and, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
psychological profiling of, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1
reputation of, 2.1, 8.1, 11.1
Silva, Paolo, n
Simon of Trent, 2.1, 9.1
Singaevsky, Peter “Velveteen,” 3.1, 12.1
Beilis’s trial and, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2
confession of, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
Singaevsky, Vladimir
Sinitsky, Leonty
Sinkevich, Fyodor, 4.1, 5.1
Solovev, V. N.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Soviet Union, prf.1, 7.1, 12.1, 12.2
Speech, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Stalin, Joseph, 7.1, 12.1
Stead, W. T.
Stolypin, Peter, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1
and alleged ritual murder of Yushchinsky, 5.1, 5.2
assassination of, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Iliodor and, 1.1, 5.1
Nicholas’s Kiev visit and, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Rasputin and, 5.1, 5.2
Streicher, Julius
Sulzberger, Mayer
Syria, prf.1, nts.1n, nts.2n
Talmud Unmasked, The (Pranaitis), 8.1, 11.1
Taranenko, Boris
Ternov mass suicide
Theobald, 2.1, 2.2
Thomas of Monmouth, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1
Times of London, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1
Tiszaeszlar trial, 9.1, nts.1n
Tlas, Mustafa, n
Tolstoy, Leo, 2.1, 3.1
Trotsky, Leon, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1
Tufanov, N. N., 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1
Two Hundred Years Together (Solzhenitsyn)
Tyagnibok, Oleg, n
Ukraine, prf.1, prf.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1,
12.1, 12.2, nts.1n
Union of Russian People, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Stolypin’s assassination and
Zakharchenko’s membership in
see also Black Hundreds
United States, 11.1, 12.1
Frank case and, prf.1, 8.1
interest in Beilis case in, prf.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1n
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 10.1, 12.1
Mexican relations with
Russian trade with, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
State Department, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
theatrical productions based on Beilis in, 8.1, 9.1
Varhayt, Di
Vipper, Oskar, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
Vyshemirsky, 10.1, 10.2
Wagner-Jauregg, Julius, 8.1, nts.1n
Washington, Booker T.
Were the Popes Against Jews? (Lawlor), nts.1n
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 7.1, 12.1
William of Norwich, 2.1, 9.1, nts.1n
Wilson, Charles S., 10.1, nts.1n
Wilson, Woodrow, 10.1, 11.1
Wilton, Robert
Witte, Sergei, 5.1, 5.2
Wolf, Lucien, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
World War I, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
World War II, 12.1, 12.2
Wortman, Richard
Wyszinski, Stefan
Yashchenko, Vasily, 3.1, 3.2
Yushchinsky, Andrei
abduction of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1
alleged inheritance of, 3.1, 3.2
alleged ritual murder of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, nts.1n
autopsies of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
beatings of, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1
burial and funeral of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 7.1
cause of death of, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1
crime scene of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 12.1
disappearance of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
discovery of alleged belongings of
discovery of body of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
education of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
grave site of, 1.1, 12.1
gunpowder acquired by, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
hunger of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2
hypotheses on killer of
illegitimacy of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1
investigations of murder of, prf.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
last day in life of, prf.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
martyrdom of, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, nts.1n
missing coat of, 3.1, 9.1, 11.1
nickname of, 1.1, 8.1
physical appearance of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
on real father, prf.1, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1
requiems for, 2.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1
and story of switches, 5.1, 10.1
time of death of, 2.1, 10.1
weapon used on, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
wounds of, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1n
Zaitsev, Jonah, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1
Beilis’s father and
Beilis’s matzo production and, 4.1, 9.1
Zaitsev factory, 1.1, 6.1, 10.1
Beilis’s employment at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
children playing on grounds of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Yushchinsky’s abduction and, 3.1, 9.1
Zaitsev family, 1.1, 7.1, 11.1
Zakharchenko, Stepan, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
Zakharova, Anna “the Wolf”
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1
Zamyslovsky, Georgy
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7
and investigations of Yushchinsky’s murder, 9.1, 11.1
and Makhalin as police informant, 10.1, 11.1
Zarudny, Alexander, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Beilis’s trial and, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2
Zarutsky, Nazary
Zemshchina, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Zionists, Zionism, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, nts.1
Zola, Émile, 5.1, 9.1
Andrei Yushchinsky’s bloody shirt.
The cave in Kiev where Andrei’s body was found.
Front page of the Double Headed Eagle, the organ of Vladimir Golubev’s right-wing youth group. The bottom lines, under Andrei’s autopsy photo, read: “Christians, guard your children! On March 17 the Yid Peisach begins.”
Pathologist’s diagram showing Andrei’s four dozen wounds.
Andrei Yushchinsky in his coffin.
The crime scene and its environs (a translation of an official map made for the court).
The “Lamplighters,” Kazimir and Ulyana Shakhovsky. They were among the last people to see Andrei Yushchinsky alive. (Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk/Abamedia)
The home of Vera and Vasily Cheberyak, down the street from that of Mendel Beilis’s family. The Cheberyaks’ apartment is on the upper right.
The headline reads “Who Are the Killers?”
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Vera Cheberyak; her half brother, Peter “Velveteen” Singaevsky; Boris “Borka” Rudzinsky; and Ivan “Red Vanya” Latyshev. Months later, Latyshev would jump out a police precinct window to his death. (Collection of Vladimir Belko)
Zhenya Cheberyak, Vera’s son. He was also Andrei Yushchinsky’s best friend and one of the last people to see him alive.
Vera Cheberyak.
Nikolai Krasovsky, flanked by his two assistants, Alexei Vygranov (left) and Adam Polishchuk (right). Polishchuk would betray Krasovsky and join the conspiracy to frame Mendel Beilis.
Vladimir D. Nabokov, father of the novelist, liberal political leader, and journalist who reported on the trial. (Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg)
Vladimir Golubev, who first pointed to Beilis as a suspect. (Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk/Abamedia)
Mendel Beilis leaving court in May 1913, the rolled-up indictment in his hand. (Collection of Vladimir Belko)
The Beilis family during the trial.
Aaron Beilis, Mendel’s brother.
Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov. (Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg)
Nikolai Maklakov, minister of the interior and brother of Beilis’s attorney Vasily Maklakov.
Grigory Chaplinsky, Kiev’s chief prosecutor and architect of the case against Beilis.
Vasily Maklakov, member of the Russian parliament and of the Beilis defense team. (Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg)
Arnold Davidovich Margolin, Beilis’s first attorney, who made it his mission to find the real killers.
The defense team.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Dimitry Grigorovich-Barsky, Nikolai Karabchevsky, Oskar Gruzenberg, and Alexander Zarudny.
Mikhail “Frog” Nakonechny, shoemaker, m
an of conscience, and star witness for the defense.
Stepan Brazul-Brushkovsky, the ambitious Kiev journalist whose sensational reportage turned the case upside down.
Prime Minister Peter Stolypin. A man with a tragic fate, he was probably the only person who could have stopped the trial.
Georgy Zamyslovsky, attorney for Andrei’s mother, who functioned as a coprosecutor.
Alexei Shmakov, attorney for Andrei’s mother, who functioned as a coprosecutor.
Oskar Vipper, the state prosecutor, was high strung and easily unnerved.
Judge Fyodor Boldyrev, the chief trial judge.
Religious texts being carted into court for the expert testimony on religion.
The courthouse on St. Sophia Square in Kiev remains unchanged to this day.
The jury. They were largely peasants, identifiable by their traditional bowl haircuts and caftans.
Court in session. Witnesses stood facing the judges. Prosecutor Oskar Vipper is at the lectern at upper left.
Dr. Ivan Sikorsky, psychiatric expert for the defense.
Father Justin Pranaitis, the prosecution’s expert on the Jewish religion.
Dr. Dimitry Kosorotov, forensic pathologist for the prosecution.
A Beilis case document bearing the characteristic mark that Tsar Nicholas placed on briefing materials he had read—a slash flanked by two dots—indicating that he was keeping track of developments in the case.
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