=Nicholas II.=, emperor of Russia (1894-1917), III 7-169 reign of, characterized, III 7 ascends throne, III 7 pledges himself to uphold autocracy, III 8 thanks Jews for address of welcome, III 8 surrounds himself with reactionaries, III 9 influenced by Pobyedonostzev, III 9 f objects to abrogation of Pale, III 11 Jews of Moscow restrained from celebrating coronation of, III 12 economic collapse of Russian Jewry during reign of, III 22 ff Jews barred from liquor trade, III 22 calls Hague Conference, III 35 disappoints hopes of liberals, III 66 appoints Plehve, III 67 hatred of, toward Jews, intensified by Kishinev massacre, III 93 grants trifling privileges to Jews on birth of heir-apparent, III 99 makes partial concession to revolution (1904), III 106 orders shooting of demonstrators (January, 1905), III, 106 f forced to make further concessions (February 18, 1905), III 110 patronizes Black Hundred, III 113 f receives deputation of Zemstvos and municipalities, III 122 defers consideration of Jewish question, III 123 abets counter-revolutionary pogroms (October, 1905), III 127 pursues double-faced policy, III 130 receives deputation of Black Hundred, III 131 dissolves First Duma, III 135, 139 objects to mitigation of Jewish disabilities, III 141 changes electoral law, III 142 expresses confidence in Black Hundred, III 149 pardons pogrom perpetrators, III 150 wears ostentatiously badge of Black Hundred, III 151 ratifies restrictive school norm of 1887 (1908), III 157 extends school norm to Jewish "externs" (1911), III 159 witnesses assassination of Stolypin at Kiev, III 164 checks pogrom at Kiev, and stirs up Beilis case, III 165 "=Nicholas Soldiers=," term explained, II 29 forbidden to live outside Pale, II 29 permitted to live outside Pale (1867), II 29, 172 =Nicholayev= (government of Kherson), Jews expelled from (1829), II 32 f excluded from Pale and closed to Jews (1835), II 4 included in Pale by Alexander II., II 172 pogrom at (April 19, 1899), III 34; (October, 1905), III 128 Jewish community of, protests against denial of Jewish franchise, III 128 =Niemen=, river, Lithuanians settled on banks of, I 59 part of Jewish Pale, I 317 =Niemirov= (Podolia), Khmelnitzki massacre at (1648), I 146 f pogrom at, commemorated annually, I 152 Jacob Joseph Cohen, rabbi of, I 227, 230 name of, used as substitute for Kishinev, III 79 =Nietzscheanism=, preached by Hebrew writer, III 60 =Nikitin=, Russian-Jewish writer, quoted, I 315 =Nisselovich=, Jewish deputy to Third Duma, III 153 collects signatures for abrogation of Pale, III 156 =Nissi=, king of Khazars, I 26