A year or so ago I asked a former UG/MA student of mine now writing a PhD diss on the kopeck press--Felix Cowan, not on twitter so I can't tag him!--to keep an eye out for ads for food-related businesses. It turns out there are A LOT of them and they are SUPER COOL.

For example: MEAT

Kamchatka Store, selling caviar and salmon in Moscow, which was apparently extremely popular because it includes a note asking the public "to maintain order in line yourself, without burdening the police."

And an ad for Maggi bouillon, too!

Maggi bouillon is from Gazeta Kopeika (St. Petersburg) (4 [17] October 1913); MEAT is from Moskovskaia gazette kopeika (18 [31] December 1911); Kamchatka store is from Trudovaia kopeika (Moscow) (7 [20] February 1911).

This one is great, too! A rhyming ad for the restaurant at the hotel Versailles in the Tiflis/Tbilisi Kur’er-Kopeika, 27 February 1911