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The collection is devoted to the Baylis case, one of the last trials related to the so-called "blood libel" (the groundless accusation of Jews of ritual murder). It took place in Kyiv in September-October 1913 and gained extraordinary publicity around the world. The accused Jew, Mendel Beilis, was acquitted, the right-wing anti-Semitic forces of the Russian Empire were defeated, and the trial itself exposed the terrible state of the political and judicial system on the eve of the First World War. The various materials presented in the book (excerpts from the press of the time, a transcript of the trial, excerpts from memoirs, contemporary scholarly and popular science articles) recreate the political and social atmosphere of the time; special emphasis is placed on the Kyiv and Ukrainian dimensions of this story.