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Image 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?
Footnote containing definition of a "splavnaia reka"
No, Russian towns were not sites of gastronomic innovation and delight. At least, not in the late 18th and early 19th century.That said, eating and drinking were necessary parts of daily life and the plans give us a sense of how consumption fit into…
This map can be found on page 425 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry.
