Vasily Lvovich Velichko (; 14 July 1860, in Priluki, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pryluky, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) – 13 January 1904, in Saint Petersburg) was a 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,Velichko’s biography at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic DictionaryВасилий Величко // Черная сотня. Историческая энциклопедия 1900-1917. Отв. редактор О.А. Платонов. М., Крафт, Институт русской цивилизации, 2008. and editor of the semi-official Kavkaz gazette.
Known as a Russian chauvinist,Problemy istorii Rossii v konservativnoi publitsistike vtoroi poloviny 19 - nachala 20 v., 1990, p. 6, by I. V. Kurukin he demonstrated blatant intolerance to the Armenian people"Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, , p. 350 by Anatoly Khazanov 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"."Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003 Velichko's "forgotten racist tract" was reissued by Ziya Bunyadov's academy.Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, by Thomas De Waal, 2004, p. 152
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