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bunnyjadwigaOk, here's more from Olearius from The travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia, ed. Samel H. Baron (Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1967):
"We recieved daily 62 loaves of bread, each worth a kopek; a quarter of beef; four sheep, 12 chickens, and two geese; a hare or a partridge; 50 eggs; ten kopeks for candles, and five kopeks for the kitchen. In addition, we recieved weekly a pud ([36] pounds) of butter, a pud of salt, three buckets of vinegar, two sheep, and a goose. We daily recieved 15 tankards for the ambassadors and hofjunkers; three small ones of vodka, one of Spanish wine, eight of various meads, and three of beer. In addition, they provided for our attendants one barrel of beer, a small cask of mead, and another small cask of vodka.
These provisions were furnished in double measure on the day of our arrival and also on Palm Sunday, Easter, and the young prince's birthday...." (p.96)
"We recieved daily 62 loaves of bread, each worth a kopek; a quarter of beef; four sheep, 12 chickens, and two geese; a hare or a partridge; 50 eggs; ten kopeks for candles, and five kopeks for the kitchen. In addition, we recieved weekly a pud ([36] pounds) of butter, a pud of salt, three buckets of vinegar, two sheep, and a goose. We daily recieved 15 tankards for the ambassadors and hofjunkers; three small ones of vodka, one of Spanish wine, eight of various meads, and three of beer. In addition, they provided for our attendants one barrel of beer, a small cask of mead, and another small cask of vodka.
These provisions were furnished in double measure on the day of our arrival and also on Palm Sunday, Easter, and the young prince's birthday...." (p.96)
