Enemy of the Tzar: A Murderess in One Country, A Tycoon in Another

In this case, catastrophe was averted. Had the worst come to the worst at the Bolshaya Bronnaya synagogue, the consequences for Russia's remaining Jews would have been incalculable. An already fearful climate would have turned into one of terror. The bomb was on July Just two weeks earlier, at another synagogue a couple of miles across Moscow, the director of the Jewish Arts Centre, Leopold Kaimovsky, was stabbed and seriously wounded.

The alleged attacker had a swastika tattooed on his chest. In May, there was a bomb planted a few yards away from there, and another at a third synagogue, the Marina Roscha, which had already been bombed three times in the past six years. The city has only five synagogues in all. For the moment, things are quieter. The mayor has banned the most conspicuous group of imitative Nazis; its old phone number has been assigned to a beauty salon. The synagogues are surrounded by armed guards in flak jackets.

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In August, the pulse of Russian cities beats low anyway, which is why politicians choose it as the time to precipitate political crises. It feels as though even the terrorists have taken a break and gone to their dachas. But another outrage - one that neither Yosef nor Natan nor God manage to avert - remains a horrifying possibility, perhaps a probability, in Moscow or elsewhere in Russia. The geography of violence is random: Jewish children were the target in Los Angeles last week.

But in Russia, the crazies tend not to be lone ones. And the Israeli embassy is now getting an upsurge in applications from Jews who have finally had enough: Others are going to the US and Germany, which finds it hard to refuse Jewish migrants.

The effect of the crash is one factor. But most of those who could leave easily left in the early s. About a million Russian Jews are already in Israel; maybe a million are still in Russia. The sight of swaggering Jew-hating skinheads in blackshirts has been one of the most startling images of the post-Soviet era. Sophisticated Muscovites are not, however, taking them all that seriously. They are not considered a serious electoral factor.

Mikhail Lesin

One analyst doubted if Barkashov could even raise a hundred marchers. A commentator in the newspaper Moskovskii Komsomolets said that most branches of Barkashov's party, Russian National Unity RNE , had fewer than 20 members, and even these were now splitting off - in the classic manner of the far right - with the start of an anti-Barkashov group, the Russian National Party. It is not clear exactly who has been planting the bombs. But in a political sense, the bomb-throwers and swastika-wearers, though alarming, are not the Jewish community's major worry.

The real problem is that, since the financial crash a year ago, anti-semitism has ceased to be whispered and become - yet again - one of the central facts of Russian politics. That is its traditional place. Have I Got a Story for You: A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet. I Contadini The Peasants: The Land of Thunder: A Saga of Love in Brutal Germany.

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Continue shopping Checkout Continue shopping. Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Enemy of the Tzar: Buy the eBook Price: Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! Hanna Barlak is an year-old seamstress in a small village, the sole support of three young siblings. She is in love with Stephen, a Russian university student. Innocently implicated in a plot against the Tzar, she must flee her homeland with Jakob, a Hasidic prince.

In Germany, she learns that Stephen and the children have suddenly disappeared, and that the dreaded Okhrana, the Russian secret police, have sworn revenge. Using her sewing abilities, she builds up her trade, spending all she earns to protect Jakob and herself from the Okhrana and to search for her loved ones.

Lesin led the Kremlin's efforts to censor Russia's independent television outlets, according to accusations by Senator Roger Wicker Republican of Mississippi in It's unclear if the FBI ever initiated a probe. Russian News Agency TASS reported that an early investigation did not find any signs of violent death, quoting a police spokesman, Sean Hickman, as saying security had not seen anything suspicious.

The spokesman said the nature of the investigation could change, depending on what was found at the scene and after an examination of the body. His death came supposedly from a heart attack. On 10 March , Mashable stated that they had been informed by Beverly Fields that Lesin's cause of death was "blunt force injuries to the head," and that Lesin's body showed signs of "blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities. On 28 October , after a year-long investigation, Washington's chief medical examiner and federal authorities released a joint statement saying Lesin died of blunt-force trauma to his head, sustained in his hotel room induced by falls amid acute ethanol intoxication.

Lesin is buried in Los Angeles.

A history of hate

In July , BuzzFeed reported that multiple intelligence agencies believed Lesin was assassinated. An unnamed FBI agent told BuzzFeed, "What I can tell you is that there isn't a single person inside the bureau who believes this guy got drunk, fell down, and died. Everyone thinks he was whacked and that Putin or the Kremlin were behind it.

The secret report, unconfirmed by the FBI, alleges that Lesin was bludgeoned to death by men working for an oligarch close to Putin. The report says the men were ordered to scare but not kill Lesin, but went too far. It says the hit men were Russian state security agents moonlighting for the oligarch and that the death occurred just prior to a scheduled meeting between Lesin and U. Justice Department officials to discuss the inner workings of RT.

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Lesin was of Jewish descent. Lesin had five grandchildren at the time of his death. Anton and Swiss wife, Carole, have two children. In , Mikhail had a daughter with Victoria Rakhimbayeva Russian: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. She confirmed that the passport was Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin. RT reported the next day that the cause of death was a heart attack. Retrieved 8 November Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel Retrieved 12 November The New York Times.