For the modern reader, the book contains many incomprehensible words and terms, and references to prices look like simply mocking lies. People, especially young people, will not believe me. I offer my sincere apologies and condolences. Let this modest book remain a monument to Soviet cuisine, like Gogol's "Old World Landowners," Chekhov's stories and Gilyarovsky's reports, as a description of a feast in "Prince Serebryany."