supporting local authorities by "milking" the peasants (the so-called кормление, or kormleniye). Maximus's relations with Vassian Patrikeyev, Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev...

animals by the newest physiological findings" (Russian: Рациональное кормление сельскохозяйственных животных по новейшим физиологическим исследованиям)...