All uncensored books, including those already passed as "harmless," were ordered to be taken away from the private libraries and forwarded to the censorship committees in Vilna and Kiev.

The latter were instructed to attach their seals to the approved books and "deliver to the flames" the books condemned by them.

Endless wagonloads of these confiscated books could be seen moving towards Vilna and Kiev, and for many years afterwards the literature of the "People of the Book," covering a period of three milleniums, was still languishing in the gaol of censorship, waiting to be saved from or to be sentenced to a fiery death by a Russian official.
It is almost unnecessary to add that the primitive method of solving the Jewish problem by means of conversion, was still the guiding principle of the Government.

The Russian legislation of that period teems with regulations concerning apostasy.

The surrender of the Synagogue to the Church seemed merely a question of time.