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		j7ake on June 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working lan... The aristocrats in Russia back then probably spoke French as well as or better than Russian if Tolstoy books are to be believed.

dgaaaaaaaaaa on June 9, 2021 [–]

^ This is right. It happened because of Peter the Great's westward alignment of the royal machinery and continued till the last Tsar.

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