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The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on April 19 and 20, 1903. A further pogrom erupted in October 1905.
The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April [O.S. 6–8 April] 1903.
The newly acquired territories were organised as the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, adopting a name previously used for the southern plains between the Dniester and the Danube rivers.
frontier had become one of the most densely populated regions in the Russian Empire. And, by the census year of 1897, although Romanian-speaking "Moldavians" were still Bessarabia's largest language group, they now comprised only 48% of its population. The Character of Tsarist Kishinev.
the Kishinev pogrom lasted some forty-eight hours, resulting in the murder of forty-nine Jews, the rape of dozens of women and girls, injuries to more than 500 town residents, and the destruction of grocery stores, small businesses,
Apr 9, 2009 · One chapter will be on the formative massacre at Kishinev, the provincial capital of Bessarabia, a 120-mile-wide nook of rural Russia where there were scarcely 100 miles of paved roads.
Apr 9, 2018 · Located in Tsarist Russia’s fertile Bessarabia region, turn-of-the-century Kishinev was home to about 55,000 Jews among a population of 280,000. Today, the city is called Chisinau, and is the...
