The Jewish Synagogue Society shall be notified that, unless, by January 1, 1893, the synagogue structure will have been sold or transformed into a charitable institution, it will be sold at public auction by the gubernatorial administration of Moscow.
The rabbi and the warden went into exile, while the dead body of the murdered synagogue--its structure--was saved from desecration by placing in it one of the schools of the Moscow community.
The fight against the places of Jewish worship was renewed by the police a few years later, during the reign of Nicholas II.

The principal synagogue being closed, the Jews of Moscow were compelled to hold services in uncomfortable private premises.

There were fourteen houses of prayer of this kind in various parts of the city, but, on the eve of the Jewish Passover of 1894, the governor-general gave orders to close nine of these houses, so that the religious needs of a community of ten thousand souls had to be satisfied in five houses of worship, situated in narrow, unsanitary quarters.

The Government had achieved its purpose.
The synagogue was humbled into the dust, and its sight no longer offended the eyes of the Greek-Orthodox zealots.

The Jews of Moscow were forced to pour out their hearts before God in some back yards, in the stuffy atmosphere of private dwellings.