Food and Patriotism in Russia from Domostroi to Viazemsky: The Case of Kvas This essay explores how one of the most ordinary Russian beverages, kvas, came to function in the Russian literary imagination. Looking at poets over the course of almost a hundred years—Kantemir, Trediakovsky, Derzhavin, and Viazemsky, from 1729-1827—I show that Russian attitudes toward… Continue reading 35.1 | Angela Brintlinger