A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel (69 page)

The Beilis family during the trial.

Aaron Beilis, Mendel’s brother.

Minister of Justice Ivan Shcheglovitov.
(Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg)

Nikolai Maklakov, minister of the interior and brother of Beilis’s attorney Vasily Maklakov.

Grigory Chaplinsky, Kiev’s chief prosecutor and architect of the case against Beilis.

Vasily Maklakov, member of the Russian parliament and of the Beilis defense team.
(Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents, St. Petersburg)

Arnold Davidovich Margolin, Beilis’s first attorney, who made it his mission to find the real killers.

The defense team.
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: Dimitry Grigorovich-Barsky, Nikolai Karabchevsky, Oskar Gruzenberg, and Alexander Zarudny.

Mikhail “Frog” Nakonechny, shoemaker, man of conscience, and star witness for the defense.

Stepan Brazul-Brushkovsky, the ambitious Kiev journalist whose sensational reportage turned the case upside down.

Prime Minister Peter Stolypin. A man with a tragic fate, he was probably the only person who could have stopped the trial.

Georgy Zamyslovsky, attorney for Andrei’s mother, who functioned as a coprosecutor.

Alexei Shmakov, attorney for Andrei’s mother, who functioned as a coprosecutor.

Oskar Vipper, the state prosecutor, was high strung and easily unnerved.