The Union also became the main instigator ( through meetings , gatherings , lectures , manifestations and mass public prayers ) of the pogroms against Jews ( especially in 1906 in Gomel , Yalta , Białystok , Odessa , Sedlets and other cities ) , in which members of the URP often took an active part . In the wake of the Beiliss Affair , Nicholas II used the large wave of antisemitism in the population , spread and rallied by groups such as the Union of the Russian People , to rally support for his regime . It was one of the first to extreme Rightist groups which had proclaimed a charge of ritual murder in the so-called Beiliss Affair , and supported the anti-Semitic persecution throughout the trial of Menahem Beiliss
Białystok
Białystok pogrom
Union of the Russian People