=Vilna= (province or government), annexed by Russia (1795), I 297 included in Pale (1794), I 317; (1835), I 39 includes later government of Kovno, I 317 Jews of, invited to elect deputies (1807), I 349 Poles threaten to massacres Russians and Jews in, I 357 Samuel Epstein elected Jewish deputy from, I 393 Poles and Jews forbidden to acquire estate in (1864), II 173 placed under jurisdiction of Muravyov, II 188 Friesel, governor of, suggests Jewish reforms, I 325 ff governor of, testifies to loyalty of Jews to Russia (1812), I 357 governor-general of, opposes admission of Jewish artisans into Russian Interior, II 168 Muravyov, governor-general of, pursues policy of Russification, II 183, 239 Totleben, governor-general of, favors forbidding Jews to settle in villages, II 276 Kakhanov, governor-general of, insults Jewish deputation of welcome, II 383 governor of, favors abrogation of Pale (1895), III 11 Pahlen, governor of, favors mitigation of restrictive laws, III 93 Svyatopolk-Mirski, governor-general, promises Jewish deputation favorable treatment of Jews, III 99 Localities in: Ilya, II 114 Mikhailishok, II 134 Troki, see Troki Volozhin, I 380, II 57, 113 =Vinaver, M.=, Russian-Jewish lawyer, acts as counsel for Jewish victims of Kishinev pogrom, III 92; and Homel pogrom, III 102 member of Central Bureau of League for Equal Rights, III 112 elected president of League for Equal Rights, III 134 deputy to First Duma, III 134 leader of Constitutional Democratic party, III 134 denounces in Duma oppression of Jews, III 136; and pogroms, III 139 head of Jewish People's Group, III 146 =Vinchevski, M.=, publishes Hebrew periodical _Asefat Hakamim_, II 223 =Vinnitza=, Kahal of, appealed to by Vilna Gaon against Hasidim, I 373 =Virgil, Aeneid of=, translated into Hebrew, II 226 =Visconti=, papal nuncio at Warsaw, ordered to report on ritual murder trial in Poland, I 179 =Vishniovetzki= (_Polish_, Wisniowiecki), =Count Jeremiah=, Polish commander, protects Jews against Cossacks, I 149, 161 =Vishniovetzki= (_Polish_, Wisniowiecki), =Michael=, Polish king (1669-1673), son of former, ratifies Jewish privileges, I 160 =Vistula=, river, lands on banks of, attract Jews, I 39 provinces on banks of, invaded by Swedes, I 154 Plotzk, on banks of, I 243 Poles perish in, defending Warsaw against Russians, I 296 Hasidism established on banks of, I 384 Gher, or Goora Kalvarya, on left bank of, II 122 Poles admit only "one nation on banks of," III 168 =Vital, Hayyim=, Cabalist, I 134