Learn Hardcore Russian: Вопреки тому что отпечаток большой, багет оказался узким. - Despite the fact that the print is large, the frame moulding turned out to be narrow.

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Вопреки тому что отпечаток большой, багет оказался узким.

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Despite the fact that the print is large, the frame moulding turned out to be narrow.

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Breakdown of Вопреки тому что отпечаток большой, багет оказался узким.

What does вопреки mean here?

Вопреки means contrary to, despite, or against.

It often introduces the idea that something happened in opposition to what you would expect. In this sentence, it signals a contrast:

It is a little more formal or literary than very common everyday options like хотя.

Why is it тому after вопреки?

Because вопреки normally takes the dative case.

Here, тому is the dative singular form of то:

So the structure is basically:

Literally, it is something like:

But in natural English, you should understand it as:

Is вопреки тому что the same as потому что?