The Jerusalem Post's feature "This day in history" reports on September 1, 1903:

Von Plehve, the Russian Minister of the Interior who helped promote the Kishenev pogroms, instigated another pogrom in Gomel, Russia. In spite of a vigorous defense, 12 Jews were killed and 250 homes were destroyed. Thirty-six of the defenders were prosecuted together with the perpetrators of the program.

I publish a related article below.

1903 April 19, KISHINEV (Bessarabia)
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/1900.htm

Riots break out after a Christian child, Michael Ribalenko, was found murdered (Feb. 16). Although clear that the boy had been killed by a relative, the government chose to call it a ritual murder plot by the Jews.

The mobs were incited by Pavolachi Krusheven, the editor of the anti-Semitic Newspaper "Bessarabetz", and the vice governor Ustrugov.

Vyacheslav Von Plehve, the Minister of Interior, supposedly gave orders not to stop the rioters. During three days of rioting, forty seven Jews were killed, ninety two severely wounded , five hundred slightly wounded and over seven hundred houses destroyed.

Despite a world outcry, only two men were sentenced to seven and five years and twenty-two were sentenced for one or two years.

This pogrom was instrumental in convincing tens of thousands of Russian Jews to leave to the West and to Eretz-Israel. The child's real murderer was later found.

Posted by David Melle
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