Constantine, however, who had secretly abdicated some time previously, insisted on resigning, and Nicholas became Tzar.] The ruin of the peasants of these provinces [1] are the Zhyds.

[2] As property-holders they are here second in importance to the landed nobility.

By their commercial pursuits they drain the strength of the hapless White Russian people....

They are everything here: merchants, contractors, saloon-keepers, mill-owners, ferry-holders, artisans....

They are regular leeches, and suck these unfortunate governments [3] to the point of exhaustion.