The plain eating preferences of Nikolai Romanov, the last tsar of Russia, and a recipe for simple Siberian pelmeni from 1861

How terrible was Ivan the Terrible, and a recipe for cabbage and onion piroshki that could have graced his 16th century table

The origins and evolution of beef stroganoff, and a 19th century recipe that I highly recommend

Rationing and starvation in the Soviet Union during WWII, and a recipe from a wartime cookbook for millet and pumpkin porridge

The history of the Volga Germans and a stuffed bread roll recipe made from many 20th century sources