I, p, 320, n.

2.] The imperial resolution was couched in the fierce language of the new reign which had begun in the meantime.

It rose in the bloody mist of the Velizh affair.

The fatal consequences of this synchronism were not limited to the Jews of Velizh.

Judging by the contents and the harsh wording of the resolution, Nicholas I.was convinced at that time of the truth of the ritual murder libel.