Matvei Golovinski

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Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski (alternatively, Mathieu) (

political activist. Critics studying The Protocols of the Elders of Zion have argued that he was the author of the work. This claim is reinforced by the writings of modern Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhine, who in 1999 studied previously closed French archives stored in Moscow containing information supporting Golovinski's authorship. Back in the mid-1930s, Russian testimony in the Berne Trial had linked the head of Russian security service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky
, to the creation of The Protocols.

Life

Matvei Golovinski was born into an

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both were members of the progressive Petrashevsky Circle, sentenced to the capital punishment
as conspirators and both were pardoned later. Vasili Golovinski died in 1875 and Matvei Golovinski was reared by his mother and the French nanny.

While studying

counter-revolutionary group Holy Brotherhood ("Святое Братство").[1] Upon graduation, he worked for the Okhrana, secretly arranging pro-government coverage in the press. Golovinski's career almost collapsed and he had to leave the country after his activities were publicly exposed by Maxim Gorky. In France, he wrote and published articles on assignments of the Chief of Russian secret service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky
.

After the

Bolsheviks[citation needed
] until his death in 1920.

Authorship of the Protocols

On 19 November 1999, Patrick Bishop reported from Paris:

Research by a leading Russian historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, in recently opened archives has found the forgery to be the work of Mathieu Golovinski, opportunistic scion of an aristocratic but rebellious family that drifted into a life of espionage and propaganda work. After working for the czarist secret service, he later changed sides and joined the Bolsheviks. Mr. Lepekhine’s findings, published in the French magazine

L'Express, would appear to clear up the last remaining mystery surrounding the Protocols.[1]

In his 2001 book The Question of the Authorship of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a Ukrainian scholar

The Possessed
) on Golovinsky's writings, including The Protocols.

In his book The Non-Existent Manuscript. A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, Italian researcher

Saint-Petersburg. Princess Radziwill was known to be an unreliable source. Also, the protocols had been mentioned already in the press in 1902.[3]

Golovinski had been linked to the work before; the German writer Konrad Heiden identified him as an author of the Protocols in 1944.[4]

Books

  • A New English-Russian and Russian-English Dictionary. London, 1912. (Many later editions.)

Published under the pen-name of Doctor Faust:

  • From a Writer's Notebook. M. M. Levin edition. Moscow, 1910. [Belles-lettres and autobiographical prose]
  • The Black Book of German Atrocities. Saint Peterburg, 1914.
  • An Experience of Criticism of Bourgeois Morals. A. Karelin's translation from French. With a preface by the author. 1919. (The supposed 1910 French original has not been discovered.)
  • Conversations with My Grandfather about Typhus. Published by V.M. Bonch-Bruevich (Velichkinoj).

References

  1. ^ a b Bishop, Patrick (19 November 1999). "'Protocols of Zion' forger named". The Daily Telegraph. No. 1638. Paris, France. Archived from the original on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 November 2015. Research by a leading Russian historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, in recently opened archives has found the forgery to be the work of Mathieu Golovinski, opportunistic scion of an aristocratic but rebellious family who drifted into a life of espionage and propaganda work.
  2. ^ Вадим Скуратовский Протоколы Доктор Фауст 1
  3. ^ "Non-Existent Manuscript - University of Nebraska Press". www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ^ Forging Protocols by Charles Paul Freund. Reason Magazine, February 2000

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