"They were strong debauchery of our economic establishments"

145 years ago, in August, 1878, judicial proceedings on the case of quality of the crackers prepared for the Russian army during recent war with Turkey began; the development of an affair watched, without the exaggeration, all country, after all was a question of the main soldier's food product on which suppliers and their patrons earned enormous money. "On an order of its Imperial Highness Glavnokomanduyushchego — the state controler reported on Alexander II — the intendantstvo was obliged to form a special pribalkansky stock of products of 215.000 poods of crackers". On a photo: Alexander II...