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1st December 2011, 08:43 AM
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Boris Brasol in 1922




Boris Leo Brasol (March 31 (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/March_31), 1885 (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/1885) - March 19 (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/March_19), 1963 (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/1963)), was a criminologist, literary critic and a White Russian (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/White_Russian) émigré to America. He was one of the first to help translate the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion) in America from Russian (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Russian_language) into the English language (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/English_language). (The actual translation was done by Natalie De Bogory (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Natalie_De_Bogory) a daughter of a Russian revolutionary.)[1] (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-0) Brasol along with Leslie Fry (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Fry) was also instrumental in arranging a series of commentaries on The Protocols to be publish in Henry Ford (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford)’s paper The Dearborn Independent (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent). He was considered the head of the Tsarist Movement in the United States wanting to restore the Romanov Dynasty in Russia.



Biography

Boris Brasol was born in Poltava (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Poltava&action=edit&redlink=1), Ukraine, Russia, in 1885. After graduation from the law department of St Petersburg University, Brasol served in the Russian Ministry of Justice and helped to prosecute Ukrainian Jew Menahem Mendel Beilis (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Mendel_Beilis) for ritual murder (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ritual_murder).[2] (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-1) In 1912 he was sent to Lausanne (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Lausanne&action=edit&redlink=1) to study forensic science.
During World War I Brasol held the rank of Lieutenant in the Tsar (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Tsar)'s army and served on the Polish front. In 1916 he was recalled from the front and sent to the US to work as a lawyer for an Anglo-Russian purchasing committee. After the October Revolution (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution) in Russia Brasol stayed in the US as an emigrant. Brasol pursued a successful career as a literary critic (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Literary_critic&action=edit&redlink=1) and criminologist (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Criminologist&action=edit&redlink=1) and published several books in each of these fields
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Boris Brasol worked for the US Department of Justice (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_Justice) under Attorney General (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General) Harry M. Daugherty (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Harry_M._Daugherty) and promoted the Protocols among members of the United States Secret Service (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service) which at the time was involved in counterintelligence (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Counterintelligence) activities.[3] (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-2)

(http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-2)
He contributed articles to Scribner's Commentator (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Scribner%27s_Commentator) an isolationist (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Isolationist) journal and headed United Russian National Organizations in America (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=United_Russian_National_Organizati ons_in_America&action=edit&redlink=1).
He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.


Some of Brasol papers are preserved in the Library of Congress Manuscript Collection.[4] (http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-3)

(http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brasol#cite_note-3)
His father was the notable homeopath (http://en.metapedia.org/m/index.php?title=Homeopath&action=edit&redlink=1) Lev Brasol.
Publications:

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He also did a translation of Dostoievsky's Diary, but it isn't mentioned on Metapedia. I think it is mentioned, however, on Wiki.