“Statues on the Jews” issued by the Russian Government [Imperial Russia; Present Day Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan] [Unconfirmed]
Commentary from other sources:
1) “To be sure, the new law contained a clause forbidding marriages before the age of eighteen, but it offered no privileges for those already married, so that the only result of the beholoh was to increase the number of families robbed by conscription of their heads and supporters.”
Dubnow, Simon: History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, From the Earlist Times until the Present Day (1915); Volume I; (Philadelphia; 1918)