Vasily Velichko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVasily Velichko
Russian journalist
Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1860
Place of Birth: Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 31-Dec-1903
Profession: politician, journalist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Vasily Velichko
- Vasily Lvovich Velichko (Russian: ????´??? ????´??? ????´???; 14 July 1860, Pryluky, Poltava Governorate, Ukraine, then Russian Empire, – 13 January 1904 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, playwright and publicist, one of the leaders of Russian Assembly, and editor of the semi-official Kavkaz gazette.
- Known as a Russian chauvinist, he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenians 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".
- Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by Ziya Bunyadov's academy.
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