He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothesaccording to the fashionbut for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans

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  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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