are remembered by the Jewish people in Russia as martyrs.[Footnote 1: Both the word and the penalty were introduced by Peter theThe culprit was made to run between two lines ofsoldiers who whipped his bare shoulders with rods.The scourge of informers was also responsible for the Mstislavl affair.In 1844, a Jewish crowd in the market-place of Mstislavl, a town in thegovernment of Moghilev, came into conflict with a detachment of soldierswho were searching for contraband goods in a Jewish warehouse... read more
