In Nikolskoye village of Ruzsky district, farmers decided to restore the production of the first natural cheese of the Russian Empire. The tradition of making baked cheese dates back to 1795. The first cheese, named "Meschersky", was made in the home of Prince Meschersky in his estate of Lotochino. The sign of the village of Lotochina represents until now a merchant with a cheese wheel on a board. The prince had then brought from Switzerland a cheese maker named Johan Müller who developed a cheese recipe, founded a cheese-making school and settled in Russia with his family. Today, we managed to find his descendants; they live and work in the Alps. And make cheese. Very similar to the famous "Meschersky".
From the memoirs of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - a writer and poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933 - with the wording "for the strict skill with which he develops the traditions of Russian classical prose." In this series, we learn under what circumstances Bunin learned that he received the highest award in the field of art, how he felt about this event and what he thought about in those days.
From the memoirs of Marina Gustavovna Storkh, the daughter of the Russian philosopher, polymath and thinker Gustav Shpet, who was shot in 1937. A tragic story connected with the founders and the last years of the famous Alferov Gymnasium in Moscow, where the daughters of Chaliapin, Polenov, Nesterov studied…
