Nay, the governor-general of Odessa refused to accept a large sum of money offered to him by well-to-do Jews for the benefit of the sufferers.
Nor was this the worst.

The local authorities did everything in their power to manifest their solidarity with the enemies of Judaism.

The street pogroms were followed by administrative pogroms _sui generis_.
Already in the month of May, the police of Kiev began to track all the Jews residing "illegally" in that city [1] and to expel these "criminals" by the thousands.

Similar wholesale expulsions took place in Moscow, Oryol, and other places outside the Pale of Settlement.

These persecutions constituted evidently an object-lesson in religious toleration, and the Russian masses which had but recently shown to what extent they respected the inviolability of Jewish life and property took the lesson to heart.
[Footnote 1: It will be remembered that the right of residence in Kiev was restricted in the case of the Jews to a few categories: first-guild merchants, graduates from institutions of higher learning, and artisans.] One hope was still left to the Jews.