| I | Appointment as Governor of Bessarabia-Journey to St
Petersburg-Peterhof and my presentation to the Czar-Plehve-First
acquaintance with the Jewish Question
| Page 1 |
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| II | Journey to Bessarabia-Bendery-Arrival at Kishinev-Public
feeling‑Reception and visits-Raaben and Ustrugov-Reception of a
Jewish
delegation-Change of public feeling-The burial of the
Torah-Daily work of the Governor
| Page 10 |
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| III | Police-Provincial administration-Block-Basket tax-Treatment of
Jewish conscripts-Troublesome foreigners-Compulsory furnishing of
relays-Illegal taxes for the benefit of estate holders | Page
27 |
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| IV | Threat of massacres of the Jews (pogroms)-Arrival of an English
diplomatist and of an American correspondent-Pogrom-feeling and the
efforts to suppress it-Pronin and Krushevan-Dangerous
symptoms-Dr Kohan-Attitude of the Jews-Jewish
self-defence-Temper of the police
| Page
42 |
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| V | The military courts at Kishinev-Three generals-My attitude
towards the military courts-The role of the military at
Kishinev-Lieutenant
K_____; Lieutenant X_____
| Page 56 |
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| VI | Nobility in Bessarabia-Landlord P-The Krupenskis-The noblemen's
school-The Zemstvo-The court-The April pogrom before
the court-My view on the causes of the pogroms-The office of
the Public Prosecutor | Page 64 |
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| VII | The clergy—Armenian Church property—Property of
foreign monasteries — Viticultural schools — The
custom-house — The Balsh Asylum
| Page 86 |
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| VIII | Kishinev society—Customs and habits
| Page 96 |
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| IX | Progress to Korneshty—Opposition of the
rezeshi—Restoration of order —Thoughts on the allaying
of popular excitement—Another case of peasant opposition to
the legal demands of the authorities | Page 103 |
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| X | A tour through the province—Byeltzy—Soroki—The
I C A—Khotin—Ismail—Wilkowo—Schabo
| Page 113 |
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| XI | Journey to Roumania by imperial order—Jassy—The
royal family of Roumania—The King's views on
Russia—Carmen Sylva—The banquet in the City Hall
| Page 132 |
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| XII | The Jewish question in Bessarabia—The Ministry asks me for
a re-port on the same—My memorial—The legal and
economic position of the Jews in Bessarabia—On the question
of equal rights for Jews
| Page 142 |
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| XIII | St Petersburg in January, 1904—Declaration of
war—The Czar and his view on the
war—Plehve—Council for the consideration of the Jewish
question—Deliberation of the governors on a project of
reforms of rural administration—My transference to
Kharkov—Prince Svyatopolk-Mirski—My call to
Tver—Departure from Kishinev | Page 171 |
tr. from the Russian and ed. b Herman Rosenthal;
Translation of Zapiski gubernatora.
