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'{{Infobox person | name = Vasily Velichko | image = Vasily Velichko.jpg | imagesize = 180px | caption = | birthname = Vasily Lvovich Velichko<br><small>Василий Львович Величко </small> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|7|14}} | birth_place = [[Pryluky|Priluki]], [[Poltava Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Pryluky]], [[Poltava Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|1|13|1860|7|14}} | death_place = [[St Petersburg]], Russian Empire | occupation = dramatist, poet, editor, theatre critic, publicist, political activist | years_active = 1880−1904 | spouse = | website = | awards = [[Griboyedov Prize]] (1894) }} '''Vasily Lvovich Velichko''' ({{langx|ru|Васи́лий Льво́вич Вели́чко}}; 14 July 1860, in [[Pryluky|Priluki]], [[Poltava Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] (now Pryluky, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) – 13 January 1904, in [[Saint Petersburg]]) was a [[Russian Empire|Russian]] Imperial politician, who served in the [[Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire]]. He was also a poet, playwright and publicist, one of the leaders of [[Russian Assembly]],<ref>[http://az.lib.ru/enwiki/w/welichko_w_l/text_1911_bio.shtml Velichko’s biography] at the [[Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary]]</ref><ref>[http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_we/velichko_vl.php Василий Величко] // Черная сотня. Историческая энциклопедия 1900-1917. Отв. редактор О.А. Платонов. М., Крафт, Институт русской цивилизации, 2008.</ref> and editor of the semi-official ''Kavkaz'' gazette. Known as a Russian chauvinist,<ref>Problemy istorii Rossii v konservativnoi publitsistike vtoroi poloviny 19 - nachala 20 v., 1990, p. 6, by I. V. Kurukin</ref> he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenian people<ref>[http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003]</ref><ref>Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, {{ISBN|0415262550}}, p. 350 by Anatoly Khazanov</ref> and tried to set them on other populations in the [[Caucasus]]. He was active during the period when the Imperial Russian authorities carried out a purposeful anti-Armenian policy. According to the Russian historian [[Victor Schnirelmann]], "it is curious that his works were re-published in [[Azerbaijan]] in the early 1990s and received wide popularity there".<ref>[http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003]</ref> Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by [[Ziya Bunyadov]]'s academy.<ref>Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, by [[Thomas De Waal]], 2004, p. 152</ref> ==References== <references /> {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Velichko, Vasili}} [[Category:1860 births]] [[Category:1903 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from the Russian Empire]] [[Category:Journalists from the Russian Empire]] [[Category:People from the Russian Empire of Ukrainian descent]]'