It is today heavy to trust in it, but, appears, there were such times, when about a potato did not know not only in Russia but also in well-educated Western Europe. First tubers approximately in 1570 - 1580 the Spanish navigators delivered to Europe from South America, where a potato was one of basic, and can be, and by main food of aborigines which lived in Andes stuff (Bolivia, Peru, Chili).
