Sweet empire

The history of sugar industry to Russian Federation — is history how the luxury goods brought because of the ocean, turned into a mass domestic product, how during an era between cancellation of a serfdom and World War I our country became the exporter of sugar, and owners of the largest sugar productions — the richest inhabitants of the empire. Unloading of the ships in port Saint Petersburg Expensive overseas wonder Exact date of emergence of sugar in Russia is unknown. But the mention of sugar can be found already in one of works of the orthodox theologian Turovsky Kirill (the 1130th — about 1182). On...