malmige

Updated: May 8, 2025

Among the many services which he has rendered to humanity, let us first mention his brilliant defence of the half-savage Votiaks, accused of ritual murder in the famous Malmige case. Although he had just suffered great grief himself he had lost two children he traveled to a distant town in order to be at the trial. He took his seat on the bench of the defenders.

Serge Persky - Contemporary Russian Novelists