He prepared a catechism which was published for Russia children by his order in 1832. This text book entitled „The Worship That Should be Rendered to the Emperor," and the following is a sample question: „How ought want if respect and fidelity toward the Emperor to be regarded?" Answer, "As the most detestable sin, as the most horrible crime."
In another place in this catechism it is declared that disobedience to the Emperor is the same as disobedience to God himself, who will recompense homage and obedience to the Emperor in another world, and punish severely, throughout all eternity, those who fail to render them.
And this was in vogue in the middle of the nineteenth century in a country regarded as enlightened.
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