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Oleksandr Polianichev

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Historian of imperial Russia at @sodertorn | PhD from @EUI_History | Writing the Tsarist Empire into colonial & transimperial history

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1881, Jaffa, Palestine. A man walks into the famous Jerusalem Hotel and, to the surprise of its mostly British and German guests, deliberately speaks to everyone in Russian, refusing to address them in their "devilish foreign tongues." Baffled by this behavior, the hotel’s owner

1881, Jaffa, Palestine. A man walks into the famous Jerusalem Hotel and, to the surprise of its mostly British and German guests, deliberately speaks to everyone in Russian, refusing to address them in their "devilish foreign tongues." Baffled by this behavior, the hotel’s owner