The torture of M. L. Melnikov from a scientific point of view

Abstract

In June 1907, all of Russia was amazed and indignant at the crafty involvement and villainous torture of a member of the Union of the Russian People in Odessa, M. L. Melnikov, by some party of people.

According to Russkaya Rech, the circumstances of the case were as follows. On May 9 in the afternoon, a young man, 17 years old, M. L. Melnikov, who was a pupil of the Odessa Theological Seminary, was walking along the Nikolaevsky Boulevard in Odessa. Tired of the walk, Mr. Melnikov sat down on a bench opposite the apartment of the district commander, Mr. Kaulbars. Three young Jews were sitting on a bench nearby. Soon Kaulbars and his family came out onto the balcony of the vis-a-vis house.

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