Borodino
55.9000°N 94.9000°E · Q132724
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Borodino. It sits in Russia.
A dark rye named after the bloodiest single day of Napoleon's Russian campaign.
The bread takes its name from Borodino, the village west of Moscow where Napoleon met the Russian army in 1812, and a much-repeated legend credits a general's widow who founded a convent on the battlefield. The loaf sold today is a Soviet-era standard recipe, and the convent story has no contemporary support.
The bread is named for the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic wars.
Tradition credits the loaf to the convent that a widowed general's wife founded on the Borodino battlefield after 1812, where the coriander seeds are said to stand for buckshot. The recipe as anyone actually knows it comes from Soviet bakery standards of the 1930s, and the convent story has no contemporary support.