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169. Bul’ba: Entsiklopedicheskij spravochnik po vyrashchivaniju, khraneniju, pererabotke i ispol’zovaniju kartofelja [Tubers: Encyclopedic guide for the cultivation, storage, treatment, and use of potatoes] (Minsk: Izd. “Belorusskoj sovetskoj entsiklopedi” imeni Petrusja Brovki, 1988), 9–10.

170. John Halit Brown, “A Provincial Landowner: A. T. Bolotov (1738–1833),” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1977), 100.

171. Bul’ba, 9–10.

172. Redcliffe Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato (1949; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 116. The British art critic Katherine Guthrie, who visited Russia in the summer of 1873, also mentioned the resistance of the Old Believers to the potato, which was regarded by that time as somewhat ludicrous. Katherine Blanche Guthrie, Through Russia: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea (1874; rpt. New York, Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970), 234.