Maksimov Sergey Vasilievich (1831 -1901) - famous in the late XIX - early XX century. writer, ethnographer-fiction writer, traveler, researcher of customs and traditions, language, beliefs of the Russian people. Your attention is offered to the book "Kuhl bread," which was first published in 1873. The pages of the publication contain all the information about bread: from how and where they sow, how they clean, with what they eat and how much they sell, up to the description of the bread fairs that existed in Russia. Here are collected many songs, fairy tales and other samples of folk art about bread. The book, which tells about the thousand-year-old culture of the Russian people depicted on the "bread slice," can be recommended to the widest circle of readers, because according to the proverb - "they never refuse bread and salt."