event
Kiev and Elisavetgrad pogroms of 1881
Kiev-Elisavetgrad massacre
also: Киево-Елисаветградское побоище
A wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that swept the Russian Empire's southern provinces in spring 1881, following the assassination of Alexander II, with Kiev and Elisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) among the worst-hit cities.
Reading notes
- To S. Kramayev, 8 May 1881. Moscow. §5 Kiev-Elisavetgrad massacre
The anti-Jewish pogroms that swept Kiev, Elisavetgrad, and other cities of the Russian Empire's southern provinces in spring 1881, in the aftermath of Alexander II's assassination; invoked here in one of the letter's ugliest lines.