Vasily Velichko

Vasili Lvovich Velichko (Russian: Васи́лий Льво́вич Вели́чко, 1860 — December 31, 1903 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian explorer, and editor of the semi-official Kavkaz gazette.

Known as a Russian chauvinist,^[1] he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenians^[2][3] 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".^[4] Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by Ziya Bunyadov's academy.^[5]

References

1. Problemy istorii Rossii v konservativnoi publitsistike vtoroi poloviny 19 - nachala 20 v., 1990, p. 6, by I. V. Kurukin
2. "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003
3. Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, ISBN 0415262550, p. 350 by Anatoly Khazanov
4. "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003
5. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, by Thomas De Waal, 2004, p. 152