The book tells a lot of interesting and sometimes unexpected things about the complex organization of food processes for all categories of inhabitants of imperial residences - from the families of monarchs and high-ranking courtiers to full-time palace servants and thousands of people invited to the holiday. You will learn about the culinary preferences of the Russian emperors, about the number of and an assortment of alcoholic drinks on the royal tables. About how the quality of food was controlled and safety was ensured in the imperial kitchens, about the peculiarities of the diet of sovereigns outside the walls of their residences, in the field - in war, on the hunt, during country picnics.