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Russian Empire, Drissa, Belarus. (Pale of Settlment) Signature and Cachet of a Rabbi on Birth certificate of a girl Frade Libe, 1917, in Russian. - Russian Empire, Drissa, Belarus. (Pale of Settlment) Signature and Cachet of a Rabbi on Birth certificate of a girl Frade Libe, 1917, in Russian. Size: 23 x 18 cm. (9 x 7 inches). Couple of stains. M. V. D. Russian Community Rabbi April 16, 1917 No. 484 Drissa Registration certificate for submission to an educational institution. This is given by acting Drissa Community Rabbi that in the registry book of Jews born in the city of Drissa for 1902, under No. 36 of the female column, it is written that in the year one thousand nine hundred and second, on the twenty-first day of September, a daughter was born to the Leonpol burgher Yankel Barukhov Serman from his wife Doba-Tsira, who was given the name Frade-Libe. Acting Drissa Community Rabbi Vyerkhnyadzvinsk or Verkhnedvinsk (Belarusian: Верхнядзвінск, romanized: Vierchniadzvinsk;[a] Russian: Верхнедвинск), previously known as Drysa or Drissa[b] until 1962, is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. The Pale of Settlement[a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden.