Dyerzhavin sent as investigator to, I 328 f, 386 Jews of, emigrate to New Russia, I 364; II 70 Jews in, elected to municipal offices, I 368 Jews of, marked by public spirit, I 379 traces of "Enlightenment" in, I 386 new famine in (1821), suggests expulsion of Jews from villages, I 405 f expulsion of Jews from villages of, decreed (1823), I 406; and carried out, I 407; denounced as useless by Council of State (1835), I 407, II 34 f expelled village Jews of, settle in New Russia, II 70 Jewish agricultural settlements in, II 72 Khovanski, governor-general of, active in ritual murder trial, II 76 ff; see Velizh pogroms checked by authorities of (1881), II 267 pogroms spread in, III 87 ff, 100 f; see Moghilev, Vitebsk, and Villages =Russian Language=, the, Jewish literature in, II 238 ff Jewish writers in, hail from South, II 238 declared native language of Jews by sect "New Israel," II 334 Jewish press in, III 59, 162 Frug, Jewish poet, writes in, III 63 Jewish science in, III 65 See also Language =Russian Poland=, see Poland =Russians=, the, tribe, in land of Khazars, I 22 relation of, to Khazars, I 26, 28 converted to Greek-Orthodoxy, I 31 See Russia _Russification_ of Jews, under Alexander II., II 174 ff, 206 ff, 215 advocated by Orshanski, II 239; and Levanda, II 239 f discarded by Jewish _intelligenzia_, II 326 ff, III 163 =Russkaya Zhizn= ("Russian Life"), newspaper in St. Petersburg, pictures sufferings of Moscow Jews, II 397 =Russki Vyestnik= ("Russian Herald"), Russian magazine, defends Jews, II 207 f =Russki Yevrey= ("The Russian Jew"), Jewish weekly in Russian, in St. Petersburg, II 221, 277 pursues moderate policy, II 332 discontinued (1884), II 372 =Russo-Japanese War= interrupts labor of Government Commission on Jewish Question, III 93 participation of Jews in, III 94 ff Jewish veterans of, granted universal right of residence, III 98 f Jewish surgeons in, accused of revolutionary propaganda, III 156 Jewish soldiers in, denied residence in Port Arthur, III 157 =Ruthenians, or Little Russians=, the, I 53 belong to Uniat Church, I 141; see Russia, Little =Ruzhany= (province of Grodno), ritual murder case of, I 162 =Ruzhin=, Israel of, hasidic leader, II 120 f =Rybalenko=, alleged victim of ritual murder, III 71 =Sabbatai Zevi=, name of, left out by Halperin, contemporary Polish-Jewish chronicler, I 201 Hayyun, emissary of, I 204 Polish Jews respond to claims of, I 204; and send deputation to, I 206 f betrayed by Nehemiah Cohen, I 207 Polish Jews loyal to, I 207 Jacob Frank considered reincarnation of, I 212 f, 214; and follows example of, I 216 See Sabbatians