Instead, they divided his yeshiva, his political party, and his newspaper.

(Not his yeshiva, but he made it his.)

An interview with Alexander Zarchin:

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From “Portraits: Six Former ‘Jews of Silence’ from the USSR to Israel”, B’OR HA’TORAH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, LIFE AND ART IN THE LIGHT OF THE TORAH (1982) vol. 1 p. 72-73

(Purchase the whole volume on JCT here or other issues here.)

I assume this reproduction is allowed under the doctrine of Fair Use.

סרט תדמית כאן…

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Needless to add, we aren’t COPYING anyone, God forbid. Rather, we seriously consider gaining general inspiration from those who, presumably originally borrowed from us, and were never exiled* and lack Jewish “Galutiyut”.

*Megillah 12b:

מיום שחרב בהמ”ק וגלינו מארצנו ניטלה עצה ממנו ואין אנו יודעין לדון דיני נפשות זיל לגבי עמון ומואב דיתבי בדוכתייהו כחמרא דיתיב על דורדייה וטעמא אמרו ליה דכתיב שאנן מואב מנעוריו ושוקט הוא אל שמריו ולא הורק מכלי אל כלי ובגולה לא הלך…

“In Megilat Setarim, R. Natan and R. Naftali reveal the order of the arrival of the Redeemer. It is known that our master (Rabbi Nachman) said; ‘In the future, nothing will remain of the great Russia except for a small mound and a small tree’. “

Source: Siach Sarfei Kodesh [compilation of oral Breslover traditions] vol. 3, KC, p 49 (“KC”?)

But the book itself is considered mostly unreliable...

Besides, I don’t see any date here or even a rough period.

Also, does he perhaps mean a burial mound [I can’t see the Hebrew], and if so, of whom? Is (the) Ukraine (then) a part of Russia (called what?)…?

So many questions…

Again, “Siach Sarfei Kodesh” is considered mostly unreliable (although I have no doubt some of it is at least valuable based on its penetrating content). A “traditional”, family-rooted Breslover once told me about a third of it is true, but refused to tell me who\what supplied that fraction, or based on what.

See more on all this at Kotzk Blog here…