Did you know that:

in the 19th century, a lenten borsch or soup for the meal of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monks was seasoned with small dried fish. During the 1880s the so-called “Snetki” - European smelt, was bought for monastic needs from the warden of the Trinity Cathedral in Pskov, the merchant Fedir Shorokhov, and gobies were sometimes delivered from Nikolaev.

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