Bears and whales differ dramatically, but scholars know that deep under their skins they are alike. In colonizing India and Russia, the
British and the Russians enslaved, exploited, enlightened, and emancipated those "half devils, half children" (Kipling) who populated them. It was an impossible task implied by the "white man's burden," a task that I have named the "shaved man's burden" of the Russian imperial elite. Among many Russian stories revealing this burden is "A Product of Nature" by Nikolai Leskov. In this memoir, Leskov, a young gentleman, strives to save some peasants from being flogged by a local policeman. But the policeman locks him up in his own house, where Leskov browses through the policeman's books, a collection of forbidden literature that calls for justice and emancipation. In the meantime, the policeman flogs the serfs, and Leskov's only success is his discovery that the policeman is an impostor and not a policeman at all.
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