We read of the epoch-making Pushkin who was exiled to kishinev at twenty, and later to Mikhailovskoye, and who escaped permanent political exile in Siberia by accident.
"Comrade Kropotkin"
Victor Robinson
It was before anti-Semitism was in flower, and the people of the time were more responsive even than during the later kishinev massacres.
"The Haskalah Movement in Russia"
Jacob S. Raisin
A similar school was opened in kishinev by Stern, and in the early "forties" there was hardly a Jewish community of note without one or more of such Jewish public institutions.
"The Haskalah Movement in Russia"
Jacob S. Raisin