Olivier salad has gone from being a signature dish and the main secret of one of the best restaurants in Moscow to an indispensable appetizer, without which it is impossible to imagine any festive table in the post-Soviet space. But what connects the creator of the salad with Crimea? A unique discovery about the connection between the creator of the salad Lucien Olivier and our peninsula was made by a research fellow at the Crimean Nature Reserve, tour guide Anna Sirotkina.