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The name was given because this layered salad, after decorating, looks like an ancient "boyarin" cup. "Boyarin" means a most powerful duke or other highest noble, who decided, together with the Russian Tsar, most important political and economical tasks.
Traditionally, they sat in the a "Duma", the place where they congregated at and discoursed with the Tsar.

Ingredients for 4:

2 lb potatoes
1 lb boiled beef or chicken fillet
2-3 large shallot onions
1 can (about 1 ½ lb) salt mushrooms
5 hard-boiled eggs

Ingredients:

1 lb boneless beef
2-3 cups meat broth
1 garlic clove
2 shallot onions
2 medium pickled cucumbers
2 tbsp tomato-paste
0.25 cup wine
2-3 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt, pepper, some Italian parsley stalks

Method:

Cut beef into medium cubes, peel and cut onions into small cubes.
Fry in a skillet with vegetable oil. Put the meat in a medium saucepan, add tomato-paste.
Peel cucumbers, cut them into small cubes, and put in the saucepan.

Ingredients for 2:

1 boiled chicken breast
2 green apples
1 can yellow corn (or 2 pieces of boiled corn)
Salt and black pepper on taste
3 tbsp mayonnaise

Method:

Cut chicken breast and apples into small cubes.
Mix corn, chicken, and apples, add salt, pepper, and mayo, and mix well.
Decorate with apple slices.

Ingredients:

2 hardboiled eggs
¼ lb chicken liver
2 tsp butter
Salt on taste
2 tsp dill greens

Method:

Cut peeled eggs lengthwise.
Melt butter in a skillet, and fry chicken liver until ready (for about 5-7 minutes).
Let cool.
Grate egg yolks and chicken liver together, add dill green cuts, and mix well.
Shape a small ball from the mix to the size of the hollow in the egg whites,
Place balls in egg white halves.

Ingredients:

6 medium potatoes
4 medium brined, pickled or salted cucumbers
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 medium radish (about 0.75 lb), or daikon
4 tbsp mayonnaise
Greens and grated black pepper on taste

Method:

Boil potatoes until readiness, cool, peel, and cut into medium cubes.
Peel and grate eggs.
Remove seeds from the cucumbers, drain a little, and cut into slices.
Peel and cut the radish into thin slices.
Mix all ingredients, add mayo and pepper, and stir well.

Ingredients:

4 lb potatoes
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 lb champignons
½ cup flour
Salt on taste

Method:

Peel and boil half of the potatoes (2 lbs), make puree with them.
Peel and grate the second half of potatoes, drain.
Make dough with flour, puree, grated potatoes, and salt.
Make balls from this dough, and boil or fry them.
Wash, slice, and fry the mushrooms with 1 tbsp oil.
Serve potato balls and fried mushrooms.
Optional: pickled vegetables.

Ingredients:

1 can cod liver
1 English cucumber
3 medium tomatoes
1 Peking cabbage
½ shallot onion
2 dill stalks
Lemon juice, pepper, (optional) vegetable oil on taste

Method:

Drain oil from the can with cod liver, put cod liver in a salad bowl, and press with a fork.
Peel and grate cucumbers.
Cut tomatoes, remove the seeds, and cut the Peking cabbage into thin stripes.
Cut the onion into small cubes, cut dills.

Ingredients:

¾ lb sturgeon
1 lb boiled potatoes
¼ lb cucumber
¼ lb apples
¼ lb tomatoes (cherry tomatoes, possible)
½ lb Mayonnaise
1 hard-boiled egg
Green salad, salt, and sugar on taste

Method:

Boil sturgeon in salt water with ½ tsp lemon juice.
Then drain, cool, and cut into small slices.
Peel potatoes, and cut into medium cubes.
Cut the apples, cucumbers, and tomatoes in same-size pieces.

Ingredients:

1/4 gallon whole milk
0.5 lb tvorog
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp caraway seeds
1 tbsp salt

Method:

Bring milk to boil in a glass or enameled saucepan, then cool a little, and add tvorog.
Heat with low heating stirring thoroughly, until the milk curdles.
Pour everything from the saucepan into a fabric bag, placed in a colander, and let liquid drain. Keep this liquid for now.

Ingredients:

3 medium carrots
5 garlic cloves
½ cup sour cream, yogurt, or mayonnaise
1 hard-boiled egg
½ tsp sugar
Salt on taste

Method:

Peel and grate carrots.
Grate garlic together with salt and sugar.
Mix carrots and garlic.
Pour sour cream over the mix.
Mix well.
Peel the egg, and cut it into half-rings.
Put the carrot-garlic mix in a salad bowl, decorate with egg slices, and serve.