Dmitry Buturlin

He took part in many campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars as aide-de-camp to Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky and Alexander I of Russia.

He retired after the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) with the rank of Major General, but was recalled to active service on the occasion of the Hungarian Revolt of 1848.

[citation needed] After giving up his military career, Buturlin was appointed Director of the Imperial Public Library in 1843.

Buturlin's obscurantist views led him to demand from Czar Nicholas I of Russia an all-pervasive system of censorship.

During the last year of his life he headed the Buturlin Committee [ru], a secret super-censorship organ that supervised all regular censors.