404.] There was a particularly spiteful motive behind the imperial ukase of 1893, excluding the Crimean resort place Yalta from the Pale of Settlement, [1] and ordering the expulsion from there of hundreds of families which were not enrolled in the local town community.

No official reason was given for this new disability, but everybody knew it.

In the neighborhood of Yalta was the imperial summer residence Livadia, where Alexander III.

was fond of spending the autumn, and this circumstance made it imperative to reduce the number of the local Jewish residents to a negligible quantity.

To avert the complete ruin of the victims, many were granted reprieves, but after the expiration of their terms they were ruthlessly deported.