About the book: 2019 / We often ask: What is Russian cuisine? One of the answers is simple: A kitchen is the people who created it, who put a piece of their soul into it. The book of famous historians Olga and Pavel Syutkin talks about them. This is a story about the heroic and tragic pages of the past. The first Russian culinary specialists Vasily Levshin and Sergei Drukovtsev will become the heroes of the book against the backdrop of the emergence of modern cuisine. The classic Elena Molokhovets and the forgotten Ekaterina Avdeeva will take you back to the 19th century. And People's Commissar Anastas Mikoyan and the mother of the enemy of the people Pelageya Alexandrova-Ignatieva will suddenly find themselves so close to us. The book was published by AST publishing house in 2016. ISBN 978-5-17-092300-7