Kremlin cuisineis not just recipes for dishes, but a matter of national importance.
The fate of the country often depended on the quality of prepared food for the top officials of the state. Therefore, the Kremlin cuisine received a special status. It became secret, and people in uniform were responsible for it.
Nevertheless, there was a time when the Kremlin cuisine experienced a real decline. After the October Revolution, there was a food crisis in the country.
When the new government settled in the Kremlin, it lacked the simplest food items. No dinner parties were out of the question.
In the early twenties, Lenin, like many Bolsheviks, ate in the Kremlin canteen. The diet in her was extremely meager - liquid soup and millet porridge. Often the leader of the proletariat was left without sugar for tea and white bread.
Vladimir Ilyich loved and appreciated homemade food. He even met his future wife at a meeting, for which she baked pancakes. Then he repeatedly visits her for dinner with homemade pies.
True, dinner was mostly prepared by Krupskaya's mother, but Nadezhda Konstantinovna was unimportant as a cook.
In exile in Shushenskoye, Lenin often ate game. Once every two weeks a ram was slaughtered for him. The diet was supplemented with ordinary vegetables from the garden - potatoes and turnips. The very same "Shushenski Roast" -firm recipe for meat with vegetables and spices, has come down to us and is loved by many.
Abroad, Lenin willingly visited cafes and liked to drink a couple of large glasses of beer. He preferred lightly salted fish to beer, and relished the pieces for a long time.
The future head of state was ready to eat delicacies from the Volga at any time of the day, and, like a child, he rejoiced at the parcels with balyk and caviar from caring relatives.
During long meetings, Vladimir Ilyich liked to drink a cup of black coffee. He could well be considered a gourmet, but health did not allow. In the years of famine, they ruined the stomach, and an ulcer made itself felt, which the leader treated from time to time in Soviet sanatoriums.
Later, when Lenin and Krupskaya already had a home cook, the leader's menu was only dietary - soups and cereals. Lenin especially loved to eat mushrooms, which he himself picked with great pleasure.
In the 30s, the Kremlin cuisine underwent great changes. Solemn receptions appeared, formal lunches and dinners headed by Stalin.
Employees of the Kremlin kitchen remember why Stalin, even during the war, arranged solemn receptions and feasts (Part 2)
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