page_title: Lithuanian book smugglers
section_title: Book smuggler societies
hierarchical_section_title: Lithuanian book smugglers / Book smuggler societies
caption_attribution_description: English: Lithuanian book smuggler sculpture near the Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania.
context_page_description: Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers transported Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ban on such materials in force from 1864 to 1904. In Lithuanians it literally means the one who carries the books. Opposing imperial Russian authorities' efforts to replace the traditional Latin orthography with Cyrillic, and transporting printed matter from as far away as the United States to do so, the book smugglers became a symbol of Lithuanians' resistance to Russification.
caption: Lithuanian book smuggler sculpture in Kaunas, Lithuania
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