=Spira, Nathan=, Cabalist, I 135 =Spiritual Biblical Brotherhood=, Jewish reform sect in Yelisavetgrad, II 333 f =St. Bartholomew Night=, I 89 =St. Petersburg=, capital of Russia, Jewish financial agents admitted by Peter the Great to, I 248 Borukh and Vornitzin tried at, and burned, I 252 f delegates of Gubernatorial Kahals assembled at (1803), I 337, 386 beginnings of Jewish community in, I 337 f Committee for Jewish Affairs appointed in (1809), I 352 Finkelstein, delegate of Moghilev Jews, proceeds to, I 363 Shneor Zalman arrested and dispatched to, I 376, 378 Deputies of Jewish People reside in, I 393 f, II 74 temporary residence in, permitted to Jewish merchants (1835), II 40 Jews illegally residing in, severely punished, II 42 "harmful" Hebrew books ordered sent to, II 43 Max Lilienthal invited to, II 53 Rabbinical Commission summoned to, II 56, 118 influential Jews of Western Europe invited to, II 67 visited by Moses Montefiore, II 68 visited by Altaras of Marseilles, II 69 Congregation Board of Warsaw sends deputation to, II 110 Baron Joseph Günzburg presides over Jewish community of, II 152 influential Jews of, apply for equal rights, II 159 f Jewish physicians barred from, II 167 Jewish soldiers in body-guard of, permitted to remain in, II 172 Lutostanski, accuser of Jews, welcomed in, II 203 _Illustratzia_, Russian magazine in, attacks Jews, II 207 f Jewish intellectuals in, II 214 Society for Diffusion of Enlightenment established in, II 214 f Russian-Jewish press in St. Petersburg, II 221, 332 f, 59, III 77, 162 Yiddish press in, III 59, 162 Hebrew press in, see _ha-Melitz_ Alexander II. assassinated in, III 243 governor of, granted wide discretionary powers, II 246 emissaries from, prepare pogroms in South, II 248 Jewish community of, presided over by Baron Horace Günzburg, II 260 English Jew expelled from, II 262 Jews of, forbidden to collect pogrom fund, II 263 Conference of Jewish Notables in (1881), II 277; (1882), II 299, 304 ff Jewish demonstration against pogroms in, II 286 Dr. Drabkin, rabbi of, interviews Ignatyev, II 305 Jews of Balta, send deputation to, II 316 f Jews expelled from, II 319 Jews of, persecuted by Gresser, city-governor, II 343 ff, 397 f admission of Jews to educational institutions of, limited to 3%, II 350, III 158 Jews prominent at bar of, II 352 Jewish notables of, consulted by Pahlen Commission, II 369 f British ambassador at, assured of discontinuation of Jewish persecutions, II 382 Jews of, harassed anew, II 385 Solovyov collects signatures for public protest against Jewish persecutions in, II 387