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Mark Steinberg has published some of the letters.
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Mark Steinberg is a friend of mine
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who teaches at Illinois.
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If I remember correctly,
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the czar believed that the nobles
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had compromised the fate of the autocracy in some ways,
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or threatened it
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by being indolent and not working hard enough.
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His view was always that he was the father of his people,
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that he was the holy czar.
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Again, everybody has seen pictures of him
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sitting on a horse,