Vasily Velichko

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| birthname = Vasily Lvovich Velichko
Василий Львович Величко

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|7|14}}

| birth_place = Priluki, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pryluky, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|1|13|1860|7|14}}

| death_place = St Petersburg, Russian Empire

| occupation = dramatist, poet, editor, theatre critic, publicist, political activist

| years_active = 1880−1904

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| awards = Griboyedov Prize (1894)

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Vasily Lvovich Velichko ({{langx|ru|Васи́лий Льво́вич Вели́чко}}; 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,[http://az.lib.ru/w/welichko_w_l/text_1911_bio.shtml Velichko’s biography] at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_we/velichko_vl.php Василий 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[http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003]Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, {{ISBN|0415262550}}, 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".[http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "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