Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:06:56 -0700 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Query: Vasily Eroshenko, Russian anarchist While looking up information on Karl Yoneda, I have come across reference to Vasily Eroshenko (1890-1952), a blind Russian anarchist & participant in the esperanto movement. Anyone provide any information, for inclusion in the Daily Bleed calendar & The Daily Bleed's Encyclopedia & Gallery regards Eroshenko? any specific dates (birth, death, events, etc) or biographical details? --- David Brown, BleedMeister Daily Bleed, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/calmast.htm Stan Iverson Memorial Library, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml Gallery of Anti-Authoritarians, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery Excerpts of information I have come across: As a student Karl Yoneda read the works of Marx and the Russian anarchist, who was kicked out of Japan in 1921 for his politics and lived in China. Yoneda found passage to China and hitchhiked to Beijing, meeting the blind Russian in 1922. He studied with the Eroshenko for two months http://www.ilwu.org/0599/people_0599.htm Love's Scar. Vasily Eroshenko (1890-1952). Compiled by Mine Yositaka. Translated from Chinese by Shi Chengtai and Guozhu. Toyonaka: Japanese Esperanto Book Cooperative, 1996. 113p. ISBN 4-930785-44-8. 1 8cm. Four tales written in 1922-23 in Japanese. The source text is a translation into Chinese by LU Xün, who probably consulted the author about interpretations. 14.70 gld. Bahai related: http://www.bahai-library.org/east-asia/divine.flag/chapter14.html Tokujiro Torii (1894-1970) Mr. Torii, who was blind, first heard of the Faith in 1916 from Miss Alexander. At that time he was a student at the Government School for the Blind in Tokyo. An acquaintance of his, Mr. Vasily Eroshenko, a blind Russian Esperantist, introduced him to Miss Alexander. Mr. Torii graduated that year, got married and became a teacher in a school for the blind in Ejiri. One time Miss Alexander visited Mr. Torii at his residence and for several days read many Bahá'í books to him. He said he found a new light, and as Miss Alexander said, the Faith shone in his heart as Truth. He became the second believer in Japan. ----- While I remained in Geneva I visit the rooms of the Universal Esperanto Association which I had joined. There I met a Russian lady Esperantist. When she heard that I was going to Japan, she told me of a blind Russian young man, Vasily Eroshensko an Esperantist who was there and asked me to look him up. This was the opening which brought great blessings into my life through friendship with the blind. The Russian lady took me to her home where I gave the Message. She said she would tell of it in city and town. She translated part of the Honolulu Unity Calendar into Esperanto and gave it to me to take to her blind friend in Tokyo. http://www.bahai-library.org/east-asia/history.japan/ "One of my most ardent friends here is a blind Russian boy, (Vasily Eroshenko). He is the first fruits of my joining the Universal Esperanto Association. At the rooms in Geneva, I met a Russian lady Esperantist, who asked me to look this boy up in Tokyo. One evening I attended the Esperanto meeting here and got his address. ----- Vasily Eroshenko Through the meeting in the Esperanto rooms in Geneva in September, 1914, of Miss Anna Sharapov, a friend of Vasily Eroshenko, a new world of joyous service came into my life. It was Mr. Eroshenko who assisted me to translate the Baha'i teaching into Esperanto. It was he who helped me to learn English and Esperanto Braille, bringing me in close touch with the blind of Japan. It was through his effort that I had the joy of sharing the Baha'i Message with Tokujiro Torii and through him with the blind of Japan. It was he who introduced me to the writer, U. Akita, who was sympathetic to the Cause, and wrote magazine articles through which the first Japanese young woman accepted the Baha'i Message. Mr. Eroshenko was also the door by which a new world was opened to the Japanese blind through the Esperanto language. He said that if Esperanto had done nothing else in the world, it had already united the blind. They had an International Association which published a year book giving the addresses of blind Esperantists throughout the world, thus enabling them to correspond and exchange ideas with the blind in other countries. In the summer of 1916, Mr. Eroshenko left Tokyo to go to Siam.
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