Which dishes did Czarina Elizabeth only eat

The Tsarina Elizabeth ate only olive soup, oatcakes, cured meat and onions.

In Chapter 14 of American historian Robert Massey's work, "The Road to Power: Ekaterina the Great," there is a reference to the fact that Empress Elizabeth only liked to try some Russian peasant dishes.

Elizabeth Petrovna was born before the marriage of Peter the Great and Ekaterina I. However, Elizabeth Petrovna did not get the right to inherit the throne, and his nephews, sisters and so on took the throne.In 1741, Elizabeth Petrovna staged a coup at the court and assumed the title of tsar as Elizabeth I. In 1742, Elizabeth Petrovna was elected to the post of tsar.

During her reign, Elizabeth Petrovna inherited the traditions of Peter I, abolished the Cabinet, formed the Privy Council, and abolished the death penalty to establish a system of aristocratic power. During her reign, Elizabeth Petrovna strongly supported the development of science, culture and education, and carried out a large number of construction projects.

Internal policy

Elisabeth Petrovna's reign was characterized by the restoration of the reforms of her father, Peter the Great, and by the political philosophy of "enlightened autocracy". At the central level, the Privy Council was formed by her own ministers to oversee the affairs of state; at the local level, she respected the autonomy of the nobility, even going so far as to abolish the death penalty to establish the privileges of the nobility.

Elisabeth Petrovna also commissioned the designer Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli to renovate Peter the Great's summer palace, and hired Rastrelli to renovate the Tsar's village, where her mother had lived before her death, and which was eventually built into the "Ekaterina Palace".

Elisabeth Petrovna strengthened the government departments established by her father, stripping power from her German political opponents. She continued her economic reforms by founding the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and by encouraging the Russian scientist and literary genius Mikhail Lomonosov to establish the Empire's first institution of higher education, the University of Moscow.

Meanwhile, the life of the serfs, burdened with exorbitant taxes, became increasingly miserable, as under Elisabeth Petrovna the landowners could punish or buy and sell them at will.