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Yes, sure us. Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast. Today's podcast is a slop shot episode on

food and dining in 17th century Moscow.

This past week has been a kind of a busy one for me

and I haven't celebrated my 52nd birthday and my 15th anniversary.

So I just couldn't spend the time on putting together a

full podcast because we're going to be starting on the beginnings, you know,

and the feelings of Peter the Great are going to be coming up.

So it's a big topic I want to make sure that I get it right for all of you.

But I did have something special here. There was a person through 17th century Russia and he wrote quite a bit about the day-to-day life of people and it was just amazing.

He took two embassies, took part in two embassies at a Muscovey on behalf of the Duke of

Holstein.

The first one was 1633 through 1635 and the second

was around 1639 where he was going to Persia but he stopped in Moscow on the way.

The first edition of his account appeared in 1647

and he really turned, in this little selection I'm going to be reading to, he turns his eye to the Moscovite

diet, providing a mixture of keen observation and undisguised disgust at manners very different from

his own.

So I hope you enjoy this and it comes from a book

called the Travels of Oliarius in 17th century Russia which comes from

Stanford University.

The domestic arrangements of the Russians vary according to their station.

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