Abstract
The study follows the trial of a Russian refugee, Vasily Chernyenko, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 1923 by the District Court in Maribor. As a house servant, he had been found guilty of the brutal murder of his employer, 26-year-old Julia Ganusova, and her 3-year-old son Rostislav in July 1923 in Ljutomer. A comprehensive criminal file, discovered by the author in the Regional Archives Maribor, reveals a stunning network of relationships within the Russian Ganusov family, as well as its ties with other Russian refugees and the Ljutomer locals. In the aftermath of World War I there were many Russians, including Julia’s husband, mechanical engineer Alexander Ganusov, who participated in the construction of the railway line Ormož – Ljutomer – Murska Sobota. The author views the story in the light of Freud’s suggestion that pathology is a structural, social deviation rather than an individual one.
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