Contributions to the History of the Kishinev Pogroms of 1903 and 1905: Letters from the Fund of Metropolian Arseniy (Stadnitsky)

The article reproduces a set of letters stored in the fund of Arseniy (Stadnitsky) of the Russian Federation State Archive, concerning the events of Kishinev pogroms of 1903 and 1905. Stadnitsky was a well-known church figure in the first third of the 20th century, a native of Bessarabia. The letters were written by Stadnitsky’s relative D.V. Shcheglov, a teacher at the Kishinev Women’s Diocesan School. One of the letters belongs to Shcheglov’s mother. The letters describe the Kishinev pogrom of 1903; give an assessment of the causes and consequences of this event, as well as of a similar pogrom of 1905. The texts are of interest because they reflect the vision of anti-Semite manifestations typical for Kishinev Christian inhabitants in the early 20th century.

Source: Oleg A. Grom (2019) Contributions to the History of the Kishinev Pogroms of 1903 and 1905: Letters from the Fund of Metropolian Arseniy (Stadnitsky). Russkii Arkhiv. 7(2): 124-135

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