Recipe of the month: Osciètre, blini and smetana

Osciètre refers either to the Iranian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, or to the Russian one, Acipenser gueldenstaedti. The Osciètre is the most interesting of all sturgeons.  The sturgeon in one of the oldest of all the vertebrates on earth. It lurked in lakes and rivers in the northern hemisphere about one to two hundred million years...