In some periods, special dispensations were given for Jews to live in the major imperial cities, but these were tenuous, and several thousand Jews were expelled to the Pale from Saint Petersburg and Moscow as late as 1891.
I en del perioder blev der givet særskilte dispensationer for jøder til at leve i de større byer, men disse var begrænsede, og flere tusinde jøder blev forvist til Pale fra Sankt Petersborg og Moskva så sent som i 1891.