there is a small town in the vologda region named totma, an ancient city, almost 900 years old.treets and houses with marine decor, even decorations on temples in the form of elements of ship charts. the salty wind has been blowing here since the 16th century, when local merchants began extracting salt from underground sources. this is a product that was used not only to add salt to food, but also to preserve it. were there refrigerators and freezers for food supplies in the 15th-18th centuries? of course not, those same wells on the outskirts are still preserved, anoint the joint, even here. he is a neighbor rolls cucumbers. the capital of the swordsmen grew in the same brine. they lifted it and evaporated the salt onto the pier. until the 16th century , the main transit of goods to europe took place here along the river. the window slammed shut when peter the great founded st. petersburg. but the merchants opened it again, only this time towards america. they began to equip ships there to collect furs. that's when we set off for irkutsk. in irkutsk, in fact, merchants from dif