One of these that took place in Kishinev inspired the poem "In the City of (*) Slaughter."
One of these events was preceded by the publication of articles by Pavolachi Krushevan in his newspaper Bessarabets and inspired the story "House No. 13." These events were often organized by groups collectively called the Black Hundreds. Interior minister Dmitri Tolstoy assigned blame to the provincial governors after a series of these events that began in Yelizavetgrad and ended in Nizhni Novgorod three years later. One of these that took place in Kishinev inspired the poem "In the City of (*) Slaughter." Perets Smolenskin led an expedition to investigate some of these events in Romania and wrote newspaper articles about one in Odessa in 1871. A rash of these occurred following the assassination of Alexander II, as rumors spread that Alexander III gave sanction to "beat [a certain religious minority] for three days."  For 10 points, name these attacks on Jews primarily in the Russian Empire.
One of these events was preceded by the publication of articles by Pavolachi Krushevan in his newspaper Bessarabets and inspired the story "House No. 13.
pogroms or pogromen [accept besporiadki; prompt on things like "attacking Jews" until "attacks on Jews"]