Self-sufficient Russia was 110 years ago, when it fed half of Europe with grain and oil. And when there was not so much devil over her as it is now.
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Honestly, I do not know exactly, but according to the literary works of those times it seems that officials and officials, consularies and other things were in the Russian Empire a little more than a dope. So that the experts don't get into - works of the second half of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century