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Censors can be astonishingly intelligent readers. For them, discernment and insight are essential job skills. Aleksandr Nikitenko (1804-77) hated and loved his work for the same reason: "Only the censor has the opportunity to read everything being written in our country." He adored Byron ("his poetry is like a storm playing an Aeolian harp") and scolded Russians for not appreciating Shakespeare. And he fully recognized the "downright absurdity and contradiction" of the system.
He tried to reason with Orthodox clerics who demanded the suppression of historical articles on the Reformation, which, they believed, might inspire a Russian Martin Luther. The…
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