When I was in Kronstadt, the locals told me a legend about where the expression “Swedish table” came from. At the height of the Northern War, when Peter the Great sailed with his soldiers to Kotlin, the Swedes, seeing him, immediately washed off the island, leaving all his livelihoods and when Peter landed on the island, he found there still not extinguished fires with boilers and fresh lunch, which was enough for the whole army.

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