All provincial administrators realized that the central Government of St.
Petersburg had ceased to trifle with the promoters of the pogroms, and the pogrom epidemic was at an end.

Beginning with June, 1882, the pogroms assumed more and more a sporadic character.

Here and there sparks of the old conflagration would flare up again, but only to die out quickly.

In the course of the next twenty years, until the Kishinev massacre of 1903, no more than about ten pogroms of any consequence may be enumerated, and these disorders were all isolated movements, with a purely local coloring, and without the earmarks of a common organization or the force of an epidemic, such as characterized the pogrom campaigns of 1881, or those of 1903-1905.

This is an additional proof for the contention that systematic pogroms in Russia are impossible as long as the central Government and the local authorities are honestly and firmly set against them.
The stringent measures adopted by Tolstoi were soon reflected in the legal trials arising out of the pogroms.