The goal of this paper is to present a brief introduction to the Russian historian, culinary expert, and cultural figure, Vil’iam Avgust Vasil’evich Pokhlebkin.....In the work of Pokhlebkin, it is close to the reverse, with much more interesting historical and cultural detail than is usually found in such books. This makes him a unique historian of cuisine, certainly in the Soviet Union of the 20 th century.
