A 19th century Lithuanian book smuggler defies the autocrat's book-ban

This is Vincas Juska, a knygneys -- "book smuggler" -- one of the brave people who defied Tsar Alexander II's "Temporary Rules for State Junior Schools of the Northwestern Krai" by smuggling books written with Latin characters into Lithuania, defying the ban put into place after the Polish-Lithuanian insurrection of 1863. (more…)