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"Rabble-Rousers-are-Us" from Nikolaev
12024-09-20T14:01:13+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f595On Sunday August 10, 1796, the crowds at the market place in Nikolaev (Mykolaiv) yelled "ura!" and seized 6 carts of watermelon. 6 men were arrested: Korochkin, from the 90-gun Sozon, Stepan Efimov, who arrived on a cutter transporting officers from the brigantine Nikodim, Osip Baskakov, who came with officers from the frigate Nikon, a skipper named Koverin, a ship carpenter named Filip Kuz’min, and a garrison soldier named Yakov Yakovlev. Tales of their exploits would soon make their way to Kherson.plain2024-09-23T09:16:08+00:0046.962298618679945, 31.984838127164053Image generated by DALL-E 3Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12024-09-23T09:03:09+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Strong men put their hands in their pockets.Kelly O'Neill3plain2024-09-23T11:19:46+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
If every picture is worth a thousand words, we have a six-page paper about peasant men in front of our eyes. What story does it tell? What do the two images have in common? How do they differ? Use specific pieces of (visual) evidence.
