Vasili Lvovich Velichko

Vasili Lvovich Velichko ( _ru. Васи́лий Льво́вич Вели́чко, 1860 — December 31, 1903 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian nationalist, journalist, and editor of the semi-official Armenophobe [ [http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003] ] "Kavkaz" gazette.

Known as a Russian chauvinist [Problemy istorii Rossii v konservativnoi publitsistike vtoroi poloviny 19 - nachala 20 v., 1990, p. 6, by I. V. Kurukin] , he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenians [ [http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003] ] [Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, ISBN 0415262550, p. 350 by Anatoly Khazanov] and tried to set them on other populations in the Caucasus. He was active during the period when the imperial Russian authorities carried out a purposeful anti-Armenian policy.

According to the Russian historian V. Shnirelman, "it is curious that his works were re-published in Azerbaijan in the early 1990s and received wide popularity there". [ [http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003] ] Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by Ziya Bunyadov's academy [Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, by Thomas De Waal, 2004, p. 152] .

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