Preface
Introduction
The last tsar's chef
Lenin's cook
The great famine
A meeting in the mountains: Stalin's eating habits
Beauty and Beria: Stalin's cook and his wife
A baker in besieged Leningrad
Exhumation: cooking in wartime
The feast at Yalta
Gagarin's cook
The Kremlin chef
The cook from the Afghan War
The first return of Viktor Belyaev
The fairy-tale forest: cooking at Chernobyl
The second return of Viktor Belyaev
Wild boar goulash, or the Soviet Union's last supper
The sanatorium cook
Crimean Tatar cuisine
The third return of Viktor Belyaev.