The tale also evokes something we recognize to be true, not just of imperial Russia but of Putin’s Russia, where mind-boggling efforts are made to please the leader-efforts that these days include telling him he is winning a war that he is most definitely not winning. These villages probably never existed, but the story has endured for a reason: The sycophantic courtier, creating false images for the empress, is a figure we know from other times and other places. ![]() The story goes that Potemkin built fake villages along her route, populated with fake villagers exuding fake prosperity. In 1787, Catherine paid a six-month visit to Crimea and the land then known as New Russia. The rest of the world remembers Potemkin differently, for something that we would now call a disinformation campaign. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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