Russian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY · 1881

Elisavetgrad pogrom (1881)

On the Russian Revolution map as “Elisavetgrad: the pogroms begin”

15/27 Apr 1881 — Anti-Jewish riots begin here, led mostly by townsmen and migrant workers. During 1881–82 the violence spreads to some two hundred towns and villages in the south-west. Around fifty people die, half of them rioters, and thousands of Jewish homes and shops are looted. Jewish memory calls this wave the “storms in the south”; the memorial marks its victims.

When: 15/27 Apr 1881
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Counter-reforms of Alexander III (chapter 2 of Russian Revolution)
Atlas: The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924

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Map showing Elisavetgrad pogrom (1881), site of memory in The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 — SITE OF MEMORY · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map · Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896 · C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884)

Source details

Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map. Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896. Public domain
C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.

Imperial borders use dated political outlines. The 1856/1878 Bessarabian settlement and Kars–Batum acquisition are corrected from the published atlas. Turkmen acquisitions follow the 1884 Reclus map, with Merv entering only after 1884.

reconstruction: 1891.41 · trace: 1878 settlement, mapped in 1912 · trace: 1901 source used as the closest provincial reference for 1881–1891 · vector: 1891.41

Layer records and reconstruction methods