Dinner Menus for the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III

Menus by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926)

Thank you to Sofi

6 comments to Dinner Menus for the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III

  • CatM

    Translations, please!

  • Sergey

    Lunch 27th May
    Mushroom cream soup
    Broth with root
    Pies
    Sterlet with cucumbers
    Boiled beef
    Quails with grind pea
    Crayfish cold collation
    Roast turkey and snipe
    Salad
    Asparagus dutch sauce
    Pineapple pie
    Icecream
    Savory

    Lunch 20th May 1883
    Crayfish soup
    Pies
    Wild goat
    Chicken cutlets
    Ruffe aspic
    Roast game
    Salad and cucumbers
    Mangetout
    Pone
    Icecream

    Last pages
    Borsch and soup
    Pies
    Steam sterlet
    Veal
    Aspic
    Roast fryer and mangetout
    Asparagus
    Guriev porridge
    Icecream

    The last page: stuf like “glory for God, tsar, russians, guests, servants and bread”
    —————–
    From Russia with love friends =)

  • Emily

    there always has to be an aspic

  • Jim

    I’m surprised to see “Icecream”.

  • Jaime

    Fascinating stuff, and a typically substantial meal. Someone probably said: “Add a salad somewhere in there, will you?”

  • CatM

    Thank you Sergei!

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