Mikhail Herzenstein Explained

Mikhail Yakovlevich Herzenstein (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Герценште́йн;,^[1] Voznesensk, Russian Empire —, Terijoki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire) was a Russian-Jewish scientist and politician who converted to Christianity, elected for the Constitutional Democratic Party to the First State Duma of the Russian Empire, representing the city of Moscow. He was assassinated before the end of his parliamentary mandate by the Black Hundreds, a reactionary antisemitic terrorist group at his summer home in Terijoki in the Grand Duchy of Finland.^{[2] [3]}

Footnotes

1. Book: 1994. Из глубины времён. Альманах. 1994, №3, с. 86.
2. "The Russkoe Znamya declares openly that "Real Russians" assassinated Herzenstein and Iollos with knowledge of officials, and expresses regret that only two Jews perished in the crusade against revolutionaries." American Jewish Yearbook. 1910-1911.
3. Encyclopedia: Herzenstein, Mikhail Yakovlevich . The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Volume 5. 5. 137. 2009-11-07.

References

• News: Herman . Bernstein . How two assassinations were carried in Russia . New York . The New York Times. September 19, 1909.
• Book: Rawson, Don C.. 1995. Cambridge University Press. Russian rightists and the revolution of 1905. 0-521-48386-7. xv, 286. — P. 136
• Book: Langer, Jack . Black Hundred . Russian History Encyclopedia . 2004 . James R. Millar . Gale.
• Book: Klier, John D. . Black Hundreds . 71 . Richard S. Levy . Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution . 2 . 1-85109-439-3 . 2005 . ABC-CLIO.