Sturgeon with Cherry Sauce

Early travelers to Russia had fantastic tales to tell of the abundant fish in the rivers and streams. More than one visitor to Siberia and Ukraine wrote of fish so numerous they were forced out of the water by the sheer weight of their numbers. The fishermen had only to approach the shore and gather them up. Moreover, the fish were often so large that it took three or four men to carry a single one (or so the seventeenth-century journals claim). But by the nineteenth century the plentiful s