Pavel Krushevan
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan (Russian: Павел Александрович Крушеван; Romanian: Pavel Cruşeveanu) (27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1860 – 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1909) was a journalist, editor, publisher and an official in Imperial Russia. He was an active Black Hundredist and was known for his far-right, ultra-nationalist and openly antisemitic views and was the first publisher of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[1]
Biography[]
Born Pavolaki Krushevan into a family of impoverished Russianized Moldavian aristocrats[citation needed] in the village Gindeshty (now Ghindeşti, Floreşti district, Moldova) Bessarabian guberniya (село Гиндешты Сорокского уезда Бессарабской губ.), he completed four grades of school.
Krushevan served as a clerk in Chişinău City Duma. His writings were first published in 1882. In 1887–1896, he worked as a journalist in newspapers Минский листок (Minsky Listok, The Minsk Post), Виленский вестник (Vilensky Vestnik, The Vilnius News), and Бессарабский вестник (Bessarabsky Vestnik, The Bessarabia News).[2]
During the decade that followed, Krushevan founded and served as a publisher and editor of several newspapers:
- In 1897, Chişinău daily newspaper Бессарабец (Bessarabets, The Bessarabian) which published materials fomenting anti-Semitism. Krushevan was reported as being one of the initiators of the Kishinev pogrom in April 1903.[3]
- In 1903, Saint Petersburg daily newspaper Znamya, where the first (abridged) edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was published in series from August 28–September 7 O.S., 1903.[4]
- In 1906, Kishinev newspaper "Друг" (Droog, The Friend).
Krushevan promoted ultra-nationalist and racist views and was brought to court numerous times for slander, verbal offenses and physical threats. After a homicidal attempt by a P. S. Dashevsky, it was reported that Krushevan lived in constant fear, kept weapons close at hand and was accompanied by a personal cook out of fear to be poisoned.
In 1903 a riot started after an incident on February 6 when a Christian Russian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubăsari, about 25 miles north of Chişinău. Although it was clear that the boy had been killed by a relative (who was later found), Бессарабец, published by Krushevan, insinuated that he was killed by the Jews instigating the Kishinev pogrom.[5][6]
In 1905 Krushevan organized the Bessarabian Patriotic League. He founded the Bessarabian branch of the Union of the Russian People.
From 1906 to 1909 he served as a speaker of Kishinev city in the Duma. In 1907 Krushevan was elected to represent Kishinev in the 2nd Russian State Duma.
See also[]
- History of the Jews in Bessarabia
- History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
References[]
- ^ Michelis, Cesare G. De (2004). The non-existent manuscript: a study of the Protocols of the sages of Zion. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. pp. 76–80. ISBN 0803217277.
- ^ Davitt, Michael (1903). Within the Pale. New York: A S Barnes. p. 97.
- ^ Davitt, M. (1903). Within The Pale: The True Story of the Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia. New York: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Retrieved from http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-180013272008
- ^ Cesare G. De Michelis, Richard Newhouse (January 2004). The non-existent manuscript: a study of the Protocols of the sages of Zion. p. 19. ISBN 0803217277.
- ^ Davitt, Michael (1903). Within the Pale. New York: A S Barnes. pp. 97–100.
- ^ Urussov, Serge Demitiyvich (1908). Memoirs of a Russian Governor. New York&London: harper & Bros. pp. 42–55.
- public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Missing or empty
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External links[]
- Rosenthal, Herman and Rosenthal, Max, "Kishinef (Kishinev)", in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906)
- Century of Hatred: 'Protocols' Live To Poison Yet Another Generation
- Davitt, Michael, "Within the Pale"
- Urussof, Prince Serge Dmitriyevich "Memoirs of a Russian Governor"
- 1860 births
- 1909 deaths
- People from Florești District
- People from Soroksky Uyezd
- Members of the Union of the Russian People
- Members of the 2nd State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Politicians of the Bessarabia Governorate
- Russian conspiracy theorists
- Russian journalists
- Moldovan journalists
- Male journalists
- Moldovan newspaper editors
- Moldovan newspaper founders
- Moldovan conspiracy theorists
- Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- Antisemitism in the Russian Empire
- Kishinev pogrom