The Imperiia ProjectMain MenuResearch Dashboardsmaps, visualizations, and moreVeles: The Data CatalogOngoing ProjectsThe MapMaker PodcastEvery story starts somewhere.Teach with MapsGalleriesKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The Imperiia Project // Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
French spies are notoriously polite.
12024-09-19T15:03:07-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f593plain2024-09-20T18:53:38-04:00Paul Vadanf46fd2a7a6d2ab1ecca0ec13c84118eaf61facfaDALLE assumes a French spy would hold out his hand in a polite "s'il vous plait" gesture when communicating dangerous information and fomenting rebellion in tsarist territory. Meanwhile, remember that in our story, officials were equally suspicious of Jewish subjects.
Contents of this annotation:
12024-09-19T14:17:13-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Foreign "Just Pretend We Aren't French" Subjects6Thrown into the spotlight and under the bus by Pustoshkin's report. Everyone from Volkov to Catherine would agree that the least reputable of this disreputable group were the French and Jewish. The former had recently executed a monarch, after all, while the Jewish people who became Russian subjects under Catherine were defined as outsiders in every way imaginable.plain2024-09-19T15:02:37-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: can you generate an image of a group of late 18th century French spies in a sea port town in imperial Russia?Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
