This entire revival so alarmed the Russian government that, in 1878, the Czar prohibited by ukase almost all publications in the Ukrainian language. "Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic" by Julian Batchinsky

The Ukase of the Czar converting twenty- five millions of serfs into free proprietors, the greatest act of legislation of modern times, was signed on the 3rd of March, 1861, and within the next few weeks was read in every church of the Russian Empire. "History of Modern Europe 1792-1878" by C. A. Fyffe