A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel (68 page)

Front page of the
Double Headed Eagle
, the organ of Vladimir Golubev’s right-wing youth group. The bottom lines, under Andrei’s autopsy photo, read: “Christians, guard your children! On March 17 the Yid Peisach begins.”

Pathologist’s diagram showing Andrei’s four dozen wounds.

Andrei Yushchinsky in his coffin.

The crime scene and its environs (a translation of an official map made for the court).

The “Lamplighters,” Kazimir and Ulyana Shakhovsky. They were among the last people to see Andrei Yushchinsky alive.
(Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk/Abamedia)

The home of Vera and Vasily Cheberyak, down the street from that of Mendel Beilis’s family. The Cheberyaks’ apartment is on the upper right.

The headline reads “Who Are the Killers?”
F
ROM LEFT TO RIGHT
: Vera Cheberyak; her half brother, Peter “Velveteen” Singaevsky; Boris “Borka” Rudzinsky; and Ivan “Red Vanya” Latyshev. Months later, Latyshev would jump out a police precinct window to his death.
(Collection of Vladimir Belko)

Zhenya Cheberyak, Vera’s son. He was also Andrei Yushchinsky’s best friend and one of the last people to see him alive.

Vera Cheberyak.

Nikolai Krasovsky, flanked by his two assistants, Alexei Vygranov (
left
) and Adam Polishchuk (
right
). Polishchuk would betray Krasovsky and join the conspiracy to frame Mendel Beilis.

Vladimir D. Nabokov, father of the novelist, liberal political leader, and journalist who reported on the trial. (
Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg
)

Vladimir Golubev, who first pointed to Beilis as a suspect. (
Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk/Abamedia
)

Mendel Beilis leaving court in May 1913, the rolled-up indictment in his hand.
(Collection of Vladimir Belko)