"House No. 13" on Asiasskaya Street (now Romanet Street): a model of the literary reflection of the 1903 pogromWe stand before the house that went down in history as House No. 13 in the 1903 Chisinau pogrom.In the West and in Israel, many associate the literary reflection of the tragedy with Chaim Nachman Bialik. The poem he wrote in 1904, "The Tale of the Pogrom" ("In the City of Massacres") made him one of the most famous Jewish poets of his time. A number of Russian writers reacted with pain to the tragedy in Kishinev, especially V. Korolenko (1853-1921) and his essay "House No. 13"The author painstakingly reconstructed the scene of the pogrom from the example of one courtyard. He described how the rioters murdered their Jewish neighbors; often the murderers and the victims knew each other by name."House No. 13 consisted of seven apartments, in which, as usual, eight Jewish families, about forty-five people in all (with children) lived in a crowded and cramped space. Consider just one episode."Berlatsky was to first plant his daughter Haiku. Then, when he climbed up himself, one of the pursuers was already there and grabbed his leg.And then, in front of the whole crowd, a desperate struggle began. The daughter dragged her father to the top, one of the pursuers held him from below.The struggle, of course, was not equal, and, of course, Berlatsky would not see the sunlight again... But then Haika Berlacka stopped pulling her father and leaned toward the hole and asked the bully to let him go.He did.Let this man be absolved of some of his guilt for the fact that for one brief moment, amid this darkness of frenzied atrocity, he allowed a ray of human pity into his soul, that his Jewish daughter's fear for her Jewish father's life had nevertheless entered his darkened soul. Korolenko writes:"This will be the eternally troubling question of how an ordinary, average, sometimes, perhaps not bad person, with whom it is sometimes pleasant to do business in ordinary times, suddenly turns into a wild beast..."Pondering about human destiny, the injustice of the world and the frailty of existence, we continue our way down the former lane of Asia, now Lane Romanée. The city's main street is the street of Alexandru Dobroi (Str.), where we are on the street. Alexander the Good (str. Alexandru cel Bun); continue walking up it, at some point you will see a signpost Str.Rabbi Tirilson 17a-21. The street with this name once ran not parallel but diagonal to the modern one; so for a while it seems to be absent, and then it reappears on the opposite side - where the ruins of the complex are visible and the four house numbers are distinguishable - Str. Rabbi Tirilson 8, 6, 4 and 2. By the crossing we go to the other side of Alexandru cel Bun Street.