84x108/32, hard cover, ill., 192 pp., 2007
ISBN 5-86793-536-1

“Ice-cream for kids, flowers for chicks. Don’t mix it up!” The words of the immortal Lyolik from the movie “Brilliantovaya Ruka” are a great illustration of the significance of ice-cream in Soviet and post-Soviet culture. And while the Petersburg scholar and historian Igor Bogdanov begins “with mammoths”, so to speak, (i.e. with ancient China), Russia, which is unimaginable without its “world-beating” ice cream, remains at the center of his book. His fascinating survey is rounded out by a short anthology of poems and prose dealing with the same theme.

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