The famine was noted, for example, in 1024, 1070, 1092, 1128, 1215, 1230-1231, 1279, 1309 and 1332. Further famine was noted in 1422, 1442, 1512, 1553, 1557 and 1570 years. The reasons were the same as in modern times: drought, excess rain, early frosts, "pruzi" ( locusts ), etc. The XVII century was opened by a terrible famine under Boris Godunov in 1601 and 1602.The famine broke out again in 1608, 1630 and 1636 During the famine in the Nizhny Novgorod province in 1734-1735 peasants fed on rotten oak corn, ate oak acorns, etc. In general, the number of crop failures and famines during the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries is increasing. In the XVIII century there were 34 crop failures, and during the XIX century only until 1854 there were 35 of them. In 1842, the government stated that the crop failure is repeated every 6-7 years, lasting two years in a row. For the second half of the XIX century, hunger was especially violent, caused by crop failures of 1873, 1880 and 1883. In 1891-1892, 16 provinces of European Russia and Tobol'sk province in Siberia were famished) with a population of 35 million;
