Heads
- Alexander von Benckendorff (1826–1844, its founder and first chief)
- Vasily Andreyevich Dolgorukov (?-?)
- Aleksandr Potapov (1861–1864)
- Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1866-?)
- Alexander Drenteln (1878–1880)
- Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii (1900-1905)
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“Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)
“Let us then examine this point, and say, “God is, or he is not.” But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following our own reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)