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A young Russian noble, Ivan Baranoff, falls in love with a Jewish maiden of the city, Olga by name. The girl's father, a straight-laced, yet refined Jewish Rabbi, is incensed at the thought of a union between Olga and the son of a cruel Russian ruler and forbids her seeing him again. A stormy scene ensues and the angry father whips the girl for her disobedience. Smarting under the sting of his blows, she writes a note declaring her intentions and leaves to join her lover. Ivan and Olga go hand in hand to the great Church of St. Petersburg where the girl renounces her Jewish faith and becomes a Christian. Her father, mother and brother seek admittance to the church, hoping to prevent the ceremony, but are set upon by Russian peasants and only saved from violence at their hands by the timely arrival of Olga and the Priest. An over-zealous peasant reports to the Russian Prefect of Police that the old Rabbi was inciting riot and endeavoring to start a movement against the government. Being a rank Jew-hater, Metchinoff sees a chance to vent his ire against the hated race and sends the peasant, well supplied with gold, to the drinking places with instructions to buy wine for everyone who will drink and then to encourage a wholesale slaughter of Jews. The peasants, headed by their leader, rush to the Tabernacle while the Jews are observing "Yom Kippnr," or the Day of Atonement, and while in the midst of their religious ceremony, the maddened peasants fire the edifice and kill many of their number. The Moscovitch family are miraculously saved from death only to be taken prisoners and brought before the Prefect who consigned them to a worse fate, Siberia. Ivan intercedes, but with no success and the little band of sufferers are led away to await the long march over the ice fields to a living death. Olga and Ivan plan to effect their escape. He follows the guard, appointed by the Prefect to escort the prisoners on their journey, and manages to fill him with wine whereupon he takes his official orders and letters, disguises himself as a guard and hurries off to the prison where he finds Olga, in the guise of a Sister of Mercy, supposedly ministering to the wants of the prisoners. They manage to effect the escape of the Jews and Olga's parents reluctantly offer their forgiveness together with their thanks. Ivan books passage to American for the entire party and they leave Russian soil never to return. They arrive in New York and are cared for by relatives. Later on, happy and prosperous, they visit Washington, the nation's capital, where President Taft receives them.