High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the Russian Empire, government agencies exerted varying levels of control over the content and dissemination of books, periodicals, music, theatrical productions, works of art, and motion pictures. This censorship in the Russian Empire was carried out by different authorities over time. In the early eighteenth century, it was conducted directly by the Russian emperor; by the end of the 19th century, it was taken over by the Synod, the Senate, and the Academy of Sciences; and beginning in the nineteenth century, it fell under the charge of the Ministry of Education and finally the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не имеет самостоятельного...