1886.
June 24. The use of Moody and Sankey hymns in Russia is forbidden. [I do not know when this prohibition took effect. I have given to it the date of the day when the fact was communicated to me by the agent in St. Petersburg of the British Bible Society.]
July 10. The censorship of the Cossack Messenger, of Nóvo-Chérkask, is again transferred from the place of its publication to Moscow — distance 740 miles.
Sept. 4. Mr. Kartamíshef, editor of the Siberian Messenger in Tomsk, is sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.
Sept. 21. The Irkútsk newspaper Sibír is fined 200 rúbles for publishing defamatory matter relating to the chief of police of Yakútsk.
Oct. 18. The Novorossísk Telegraph is prosecuted for printing an advertisement without the permission of the police.
Oct. 22. Street sales of the Moscow Rússkia Védomosti are forbidden.
Nov. 5. Mr. Notóvich, editor of the St. Petersburg Nóvosti, is sentenced to three months' imprisonment; Mr. Polevói, editor of the Picturesque Review, is sentenced to two months' imprisonment; and the editor of the Petersburg Leaflet is fined 100 rúbles for libel.
Nov. 27. Permission to publish a newspaper in the Baltic town of Rével is denied.
Nov. 27. The Bourse Gazette receives a second warning on account of its "pernicious tendency."
1887.
Jan. 9. The newspaper Russian Affairs is suspended for attacking Germany.
Jan. 29. The Gazéta Gátsuka is suspended and its office closed and sealed by the police. Its offense is said to be the printing of two kinds of papers — one sort for St. Petersburg and one for the provinces — the latter containing articles that the censor would not allow.
Jan. 29. The newspaper Russian Workman and a number of religious tracts are prohibited by the Holy Synod.
April 23. The retail sale in public places of Count Tolstoi's "Powers of Darkness" is forbidden.
May 7. The Tomsk Siberian Gazette is suspended for eight months.
May 28. Street sales of the Sovrémmenia Izvéstia are forbidden.
June 18. The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette is suspended for one month.
July 30. The Irkútsk newspaper Sibír is finally suppressed.
July 30. Street sales of the Rússki Kuriér are forbidden.
Oct. 8. Street sales of the Minúta and the Son of the Fatherland are forbidden.
Oct. 15. The Gazéta Gátsuka is suspended for eight months.
